Re: Marvell 6141 on an ASUS M2N32-WS Motherboard

[Brad Campbell <brad@wasp.net.au>]

Brad Campbell wrote:
> G'day all,
> 
> The archives tell of many tales of woe regarding this chip (which 
> matches my experience).
> 
> I've added the PCI ID for it into the ahci driver, and provided I only 
> use one of the ports it works (tho it's kinda slow). As per everyone 
> elses experience, if I try and read from more than one port at one time 
> the whole shooting match dies thusly..
> 
> Begin with modprobe ahci as it does not seem to support hotplug, so 
> rmmod/plug drives/modprobe
> 
> [  798.035338] ahci 0000:08:00.0: version 3.0

Is there anyone interested in looking at this? I can leave the board on my bench for as long as it 
may be of use to someone for testing. If it's a lack of documentation or other issue that means 
there is no likelihood of a fix I'll go and install it.

Brad
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