I recently installed Fedora Core 4 Test 2 64-bit on a Supermicro 7044H-TR server. It has a Super X6DHT-G motherboard which has a 6300ESB SATA controller onboard. I also have a Marvell 88SX6081 SATA controller installed. I had no problems with the onboard 6300ESB controller. I was able to see the hard drives hooked to it during install and use them. My problem lies with the Marvell controller. After installation I am unable to see any of the drives I have attached to the Marvell controller. In total I have 10 sata drives in the system, 2 are attached to the onboard controller and 8 are attached to the Marvell controller. When I do an lsmod I see that the ata_piix module is being used by 10 devices, but there are only dev files for sda/sdb, the two drives hooked to the onboard controller. Any suggestions would be a great help, thanks in advance.
Frank L'Odense Network Applications Engineer Apache Junction Unified School District Phone: 480-982-1110 Ext. 2041
Am Freitag, den 06.05.2005, 08:15 -0700 schrieb FRANK LODENSE:
I recently installed Fedora Core 4 Test 2 64-bit on a Supermicro 7044H-TR server. It has a Super X6DHT-G motherboard which has a 6300ESB SATA controller onboard. I also have a Marvell 88SX6081 SATA controller installed.
From: http://linux.yyz.us/sata/sata-status.html#marvell
Marvell 88SX50[48]x Summary: Similar to ServerWorks "frodo": per-device queues, full SATA control including hotplug. The 88SX50xx series supports TCQ, but not NCQ or PM. The 88SX60x1 series supports TCQ, NCQ, and PM.
libata driver status: stalled.
The first line says 88SX50[48]x but probably "stalled" means the 88SX60x1 series also.
So no Linux driver currently. :-(
Not only is their no support for that controller, there is also no driver that appears to work under Fedora Core 4...I compiled the driver from the source code that ABIT has and it fails when the drives are under high load (drives time out and never come back)..
I've had a nice server with an ABIT SU-2S sitting around for months doing nothing because of this...
You also won't get any support from Marvell because they do not support end users...
Good luck - My solution to the problem is likely going to be to sell my motherboard and start over...
----- Original Message ----- From: "FRANK LODENSE" flodense@ajusd.org To: fedora-test-list@redhat.com Sent: Friday, May 06, 2005 9:15 AM Subject: Fedora Core 4 Test 2 64-bit - SATA Problem
I recently installed Fedora Core 4 Test 2 64-bit on a Supermicro 7044H-TR server. It has a Super X6DHT-G motherboard which has a 6300ESB SATA controller onboard. I also have a Marvell 88SX6081 SATA controller installed. I had no problems with the onboard 6300ESB controller. I was able to see the hard drives hooked to it during install and use them. My problem lies with the Marvell controller. After installation I am unable to see any of the drives I have attached to the Marvell controller. In total I have 10 sata drives in the system, 2 are attached to the onboard controller and 8 are attached to the Marvell controller. When I do an lsmod I see that the ata_piix module is being used by 10 devices, but there are only dev files for sda/sdb, the two drives hooked to the onboard controller. Any suggestions would be a great help, thanks in advance.
Frank L'Odense Network Applications Engineer Apache Junction Unified School District Phone: 480-982-1110 Ext. 2041
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