sata_mv driver support for Marvell Hercules II controller in newer kernels

sata_mv driver support for Marvell Hercules II controller in newer kernels

[The Government]

Hey guys,

I'm using a Supermicro aoc-sat2-mv8, which is supposedly supported by the Linux kernel by "sata_mv" driver. Unfortunately, I've been unable to troubleshoot why newer distros (and thus kernels) are not detecting/using sata_mv for this card. I tried an (older) Slackware 12.1 install disk, that for some reason works by use of sata_mv (12.1 was released may 2008, when I think sata_mv was still beta). Anyhow, I've tried many newest releases from Slackware, Arch, etc - and it seems newer kernels do not properly recognize this card. I'm not sure what to make of the newer kernels saying "adaptec aacraid driver" is being used (an incorrectly detected driver?). Anyway, I was told this chipset had great linux support - does it still? Thanks a lot.

(please CC me for replies, thanks a lot)


      

Re: sata_mv driver support for Marvell Hercules II controller in newer kernels

[Jeff Garzik]

On 02/16/2010 10:44 PM, The Government wrote:
> Hey guys,
>
> I'm using a Supermicro aoc-sat2-mv8, which is supposedly supported by the Linux kernel by "sata_mv" driver. Unfortunately, I've been unable to troubleshoot why newer distros (and thus kernels) are not detecting/using sata_mv for this card. I tried an (older) Slackware 12.1 install disk, that for some reason works by use of sata_mv (12.1 was released may 2008, when I think sata_mv was still beta). Anyhow, I've tried many newest releases from Slackware, Arch, etc - and it seems newer kernels do not properly recognize this card. I'm not sure what to make of the newer kernels saying "adaptec aacraid driver" is being used (an incorrectly detected driver?). Anyway, I was told this chipset had great linux support - does it still? Thanks a lot.
>
> (please CC me for replies, thanks a lot)

(cc linux-ide added)

We need a lot more hard detail, such as lspci and dmesg output.

	Jeff

Re: sata_mv driver support for Marvell Hercules II controller in newer kernels

[Mikael Abrahamsson]

On Wed, 17 Feb 2010, Jeff Garzik wrote:

> On 02/16/2010 10:44 PM, The Government wrote:
>> Hey guys,
>> 
>> I'm using a Supermicro aoc-sat2-mv8, which is supposedly supported by the 
>> Linux kernel by "sata_mv" driver. Unfortunately, I've been unable to 
>> troubleshoot why newer distros (and thus kernels) are not detecting/using 
>> sata_mv for this card. I tried an (older) Slackware 12.1 install disk, that 
>> for some reason works by use of sata_mv (12.1 was released may 2008, when I 
>> think sata_mv was still beta). Anyhow, I've tried many newest releases from 
>> Slackware, Arch, etc - and it seems newer kernels do not properly recognize 
>> this card. I'm not sure what to make of the newer kernels saying "adaptec 
>> aacraid driver" is being used (an incorrectly detected driver?). Anyway, I 
>> was told this chipset had great linux support - does it still? Thanks a 
>> lot.
>> 
>> (please CC me for replies, thanks a lot)
>
> (cc linux-ide added)
>
> We need a lot more hard detail, such as lspci and dmesg output.

Hi,

the aoc-sat2-mv8 is properly recognised and used (sata_mv) in Ubuntu 10.04 
anyway (2.6.32) so it's not strictly a kernel issue.

-- 
Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike@swm.pp.se