From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: Marvell SATA status Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 19:07:35 -0500 Message-ID: <43CD86C7.80806@pobox.com> References: <43CD67E1.7080703@int.gl3> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail.dvmed.net ([216.237.124.58]:38320 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932455AbWARAHj (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Jan 2006 19:07:39 -0500 In-Reply-To: <43CD67E1.7080703@int.gl3> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Jan Bakuwel Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org Jan Bakuwel wrote: > Hi, > > I need to decide whether to add an additional 3ware SATA RAID adapter to > a server or to utilise the onboard Marvell SATA RAID adapter Note that the Marvell chip is not RAID. See http://linux.yyz.us/sata/faq-sata-raid.html > (preferred). The Marvell driver (2.6.15.1) is "highly experimental" and > I see no traffic mentioning this driver since Sept last year... I was > wondering what the current status is. If it's still alive I'm obviously > offering to help debug it... You will have better luck on the linux-ide list, though there admittedly aren't a lot of sata_mv hackers. Patches are certainly welcome. sata_mv needs some more errata workarounds before it could be said to be ready for production. Jeff