Re: 3.2.14: Marvell 88SE9123 PCIe SATA 6.0 Gb/s controller not working

[Mark Lord <kernel@teksavvy.com>]

On 12-04-13 04:26 PM, Martin Mokrejs wrote:
> Hi,
>   I am looking for an Express Card to plug into my laptop to provide additional
> eSATA port. I just tried two cards, incidentally having same chipset. One was
> from Axago ECS-6S (1x eSATA port) and the other was Kouwell EK-113 (2x eSATA).
> Both cards have just one/two eSATA ports but kernel tries to assign many ata ports
> (see the logs). And this was probably fatal issue:

I have/use this single-port card with port-multipliers and single drives,
and it works very well under all kernels from the past couple of years:

   http://www.dealextreme.com/p/1-port-esata-expresscard-34mm-expansion-card-for-laptops-3gbps-28899
   0d:00.0 SATA controller: JMicron Technology Corp. JMB360 AHCI Controller (rev 02)

There is also a 2-port version, which probably works just as well,
but I don't have one (yet -- on order).

  http://www.dealextreme.com/p/54mm-express-card-to-2-port-esata-raid-card-for-notebook-48004

Do NOT get any of the combo USB3/eSATA cards, because the eSATA ports on those
are really just USB3 internally.  So they work with port multipliers,
but they don't provide raw drive access.  I have one of those here as well.

Cheers