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

[Mark Lord <kernel@teksavvy.com>]

On 12-04-14 08:39 AM, Mark Lord wrote:
> 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.

Correction:  the USB3/eSATA combo cards do NOT work with port-multipliers on the "eSATA" port.
They do work with USB3 based port multiplers plugged into the USB3 port.

Cheers