Hello,
I am using the Asus P6T6 WS Revolution motherboard which has 2 Marvell I/O controllers:
- Marvell 88SE6121 eSATA controller
- Marvell 88SE6320 SAS controller
I know Linux does support both controllers, and FreeBSD does not.
It would be ideal to have support for the SAS controller, but the issue I have is with the 88SE6121 controller where there was a patch released last year to identify it as an IDE controller, not a SATA/eSATA controller:
According to Asus, the P5Q uses the Marvell 88SE6111 for it's IDE controller, not the 88SE6121 that was mentioned in the FreeBSD patch.
I'm running FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE, and I am unable to use my eSATA ports as they are being recognized as IDE controller:
Is this an error by the author of the patch for mistakenly using the 88SE6121 as an IDE controller and not the 88SE6111? Can this be resolved?
Also, is there a way to port the mv_sas driver from Linux to FreeBSD so that the Marvell SAS controller works in FreeBSD?
Thanks for your time.
I am using the Asus P6T6 WS Revolution motherboard which has 2 Marvell I/O controllers:
- Marvell 88SE6121 eSATA controller
- Marvell 88SE6320 SAS controller
I know Linux does support both controllers, and FreeBSD does not.
It would be ideal to have support for the SAS controller, but the issue I have is with the 88SE6121 controller where there was a patch released last year to identify it as an IDE controller, not a SATA/eSATA controller:
Code:
Asus P5Q motherboard uses a Marvell 88SE6121 for its IDE channel.
This controller is not recognized and handled correctly by FreeBSD.
...
{ ATA_M88SX6041, 0, 4, MV60XX, ATA_SA300, "88SX6041" },
{ ATA_M88SX6081, 0, 8, MV60XX, ATA_SA300, "88SX6081" },
{ ATA_M88SX6101, 0, 1, MV61XX, ATA_UDMA6, "88SX6101" },
+ { ATA_M88SX6121, 0, 1, MV61XX, ATA_UDMA6, "88SX6121" },
{ ATA_M88SX6145, 0, 2, MV61XX, ATA_UDMA6, "88SX6145" },
...
http://old.nabble.com/kern-128950:--patch--Marvell-88SE6121-PATA-controller-not-supported-td20551283.html
According to Asus, the P5Q uses the Marvell 88SE6111 for it's IDE controller, not the 88SE6121 that was mentioned in the FreeBSD patch.
I'm running FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE, and I am unable to use my eSATA ports as they are being recognized as IDE controller:
Code:
plutonium# dmesg | grep -i marvell
atapci0: <Marvell 88SX6121 UDMA133 controller> port 0xcc00-0xcc07,0xc880-0xc883,0xc800-0xc807,0xc480-0xc483,0xc400-0xc40f mem 0xfbcffc00-0xfbcfffff irq 19 at device 0.0 on pci9
plutonium#
Is this an error by the author of the patch for mistakenly using the 88SE6121 as an IDE controller and not the 88SE6111? Can this be resolved?
Also, is there a way to port the mv_sas driver from Linux to FreeBSD so that the Marvell SAS controller works in FreeBSD?
Thanks for your time.