From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: Adaptec Hercules 2 (Marvell AIC-8130) SATA chipset support Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2005 00:32:56 -0500 Message-ID: <42006608.5000200@pobox.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:60813 "EHLO parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261438AbVBBFdL (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Feb 2005 00:33:11 -0500 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Christensen Tom Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org 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