Re: SATA AHCI controller detection during PCI enumeration

[Murali Karicheri <m-karicheri2@ti.com>]

On 06/25/2014 12:01 AM, Pratyush Anand wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 7:56 PM, Murali Karicheri<m-karicheri2@ti.com>  wrote:
>> All,
>>
>> I have a board with PCI controller connected to a Marvell AHCI controller,
>> 88SE9182 connected to a PCIe bus and the PCI scan doesn't show up the SATA
>> end point. My question is in order to detect the EP,
>> is it expected to have a hard drive connected to the SATA port?
>
> No
>
>> Currently with and without the SATA connected, the PCI scan doesn't
>> show up the device. Also is there any other requirements at the
>> hardware level to detect this SATA controller.
>
> Does this PCIe2SATA card work with standard PC?
>
> I do not know about this Marvell controller, but I remember one
> silicon image controller which worked with only Gen1 host port.
> You may ask card vendor if there is any such limitation.
>
Pratyush,

Thanks for the reply. I will touch base with the Vendor on this.

Murali

> ~Pratyush
>
>>
>> Thanks in advance for your reply.
>>
>> Murali
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