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From: Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Any recommendations for PCI-X SATA cards?
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2012 18:15:23
Message-Id: CAEH5T2P+J6+uYmEX-dJF+NSTLOQbUHmmMxF+8pXxUMvq8g0TDg@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Any recommendations for PCI-X SATA cards? by felix@crowfix.com
1 On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 12:45 PM, <felix@×××××××.com> wrote:
2 > On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 09:57:20AM -0700, felix@×××××××.com wrote:
3 >> On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 06:05:30PM -0400, Michael Mol wrote:
4 >>
5 >> > I have a couple "MV88SX6081 8-port SATA II PCI-X Controller" devices I
6 >> > picked up from Newegg a couple years back. They work beautifully.
7 >>
8 >> It came, I installed it, it shows a BIOS page on reboot, and lspci
9 >> knows about it.  However, the two drives on it are unrecognized.
10 >>
11 >> Does this require some specific kernel options or modules or firmware?
12 >
13 > Aiieee!  For some reason, my kernel has every SATA driver configured EXCEPT sata_mv.
14 >
15 > I'll report back in a while ....
16
17 You should be able to put it in AHCI mode somewhere in the
18 BIOS/settings and be able to use the ahci driver instead. I have this
19 similar chipset and use ahci driver with no problems:
20
21 SATA controller [0106]: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88SE9128 PCIe
22 SATA 6 Gb/s RAID controller [1b4b:9128] (rev 11)