Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Serial ATA (SATA) on Linux status report (2.6.x mainstream plan for AHCI and iswraid??) | From | Justin Cormack <> | Date | Sat, 12 Jun 2004 15:36:51 +0100 |
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On Fri, 2004-06-11 at 03:30, Andre Tomt wrote: > Since we're on the topic of new libata drivers, how is the Marvell > driver coming along? I'm getting several server units with a 4-port > version on-board in the not-so-distant future, it would be nice if they > could use all their drive bays ;-)
Though not as useful as a libata driver (and not GPL, though the license is entirely unrestrictive), there is an open source driver for the Marvell chipsets:
http://www.highpoint-tech.com/BIOS%20%2B%20Driver/rr1820a/Linux/rr182x-openbuild-v1.02.tgz
It wont build on 2.6 due to cli/sti (v. easy to fix though - its just the irq locking), and it only supports 8 channel chips (only a few #defines for PCI ids and number of ports). Intend to fix it up and test it next week if the libata driver not out, as I have a few of these. The highpoint card is the first PCI-X SATA card I have actually managed to get hold of, but unlike other highpoint cards is not their chipset:
03:02.0 SCSI storage controller: Marvell MV88SX5081 8-port SATA I PCI-X Controller (rev 03)
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