* Adaptec Hercules 2 (Marvell AIC-8130) SATA chipset support
@ 2005-02-02 3:39 Christensen Tom
2005-02-02 5:32 ` Jeff Garzik
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From: Christensen Tom @ 2005-02-02 3:39 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-ide
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.
Thanks,
Tom Christensen
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* Re: Adaptec Hercules 2 (Marvell AIC-8130) SATA chipset support
2005-02-02 3:39 Adaptec Hercules 2 (Marvell AIC-8130) SATA chipset support Christensen Tom
@ 2005-02-02 5:32 ` Jeff Garzik
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From: Jeff Garzik @ 2005-02-02 5:32 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Christensen Tom; +Cc: linux-ide
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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