From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Christensen Tom <paveraware@hotmail.com>
Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Adaptec Hercules 2 (Marvell AIC-8130) SATA chipset support
Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2005 00:32:56 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <42006608.5000200@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BAY21-F2602989D03802536F52405DF7E0@phx.gbl>
Christensen Tom wrote:
> I have a server with the above SATA chipset, it has 4 SATA ports, and of
> course I can't get linux to recognize it. I believe from a conversation
> with Supermicro (the makers of the motherboard) that it is one of the
> Marvell SATA chipsets most likely 88SX6041. However, Adaptec wrote
> their own firmware and rereleased it as the AIC-8130...
>
> They released a binary driver but it only works in 2.4 kernels, and then
> only in a couple vendor specific kernels that have exploits and
> shouldn't be used. Any chance that the Marvell driver that is being
> worked on will work with this chipset/firmware?
>
> If it's possible that the 88SX6041 driver might work, or if it might be
> like the AAR1200 series adaptec cards that are based on the Silicon
> Image chipset, but needed a patch to get working I would be more than
> happy to test and even try to do some dev work on it.
It's easy to modify the sata_sil.c to include the PCI IDs (lspci -n).
The Marvell chipset driver should be coming along sometime, but it
hasn't moved in a while.
Jeff
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2005-02-02 3:39 Adaptec Hercules 2 (Marvell AIC-8130) SATA chipset support Christensen Tom
2005-02-02 5:32 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
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