From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934211AbXCVTpp (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Mar 2007 15:45:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S934213AbXCVTpo (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Mar 2007 15:45:44 -0400 Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:57064 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S934211AbXCVTpo (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Mar 2007 15:45:44 -0400 Message-ID: <4602DCE5.2080701@garzik.org> Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 15:45:41 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070302) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: genestapp@charter.net CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: SATA: Marvell 88SE6141 kernel support? References: <1992941410.1174591674270.JavaMail.root@fepweb09> In-Reply-To: <1992941410.1174591674270.JavaMail.root@fepweb09> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -4.3 (----) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 3.1.8 on srv5.dvmed.net summary: Content analysis details: (-4.3 points, 5.0 required) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org genestapp@charter.net wrote: > sorry about it taking so long to get back to you. I noticed it still doesn't > work after upgrading to fedora 6 and the newest kernel (at the time) so I thought I'd give your legacy driver a try (if you > still have it) I'd love to have those 4 extra sata ports. Just a question with > the legacy driver would the performance take a hit? I'd be using the ports to > add more disks to raid arrays. > > kernel version: 2.6.19-1.2911.6.5.fc6: > linux distro: fedora core 6 64bit > lspci -v output for marvell sata - > > 03:00.0 SATA controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Unknown device 6141 (rev 01) (prog-if 81) If you are only using the SATA side of things, you can probably just add the PCI ID to the driver. Or test the patch found in -mm tree. Jeff