[gentoo-user] SuperMicro P4SCT+ and SATA

[gentoo-user] SuperMicro P4SCT+ and SATA

[David Busby]

List,
   I'm trying to get 2005.1 onto this box I was just gifted.  It's got a SuperMicro p4sct+ with a goofy SATA controller. 
  I've got four hard drives in it, connected to these four SATA connectors (labeled like 1/5, 2/6, 3/7, 4/8).  I guess 
i'm using them in 1,2,3,4 mode.  But my gentoo cannot see the drives.  lspci sees the controller

0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82875P/E7210 Memory Controller Hub (rev 02)
0000:00:03.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82875P/E7210 Processor to PCI to CSA Bridge (rev 02)
0000:00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6300ESB 64-bit PCI-X Bridge (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 6300ESB USB Universal Host Controller (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 6300ESB USB Universal Host Controller (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.4 System peripheral: Intel Corporation 6300ESB Watchdog Timer (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.5 PIC: Intel Corporation 6300ESB I/O Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 6300ESB USB2 Enhanced Host Controller (rev 02)
0000:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 0a)
0000:00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 6300ESB LPC Interface Controller (rev 02)
0000:00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 6300ESB PATA Storage Controller (rev 02)
0000:00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 6300ESB SATA Storage Controller (rev 02)
0000:00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 6300ESB SMBus Controller (rev 02)
0000:01:01.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82547GI Gigabit Ethernet Controller
0000:02:04.0 RAID bus controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. MV88SX5041 4-port SATA I PCI-X Controller
0000:03:09.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage XL (rev 27)
0000:03:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82541GI/PI Gigabit Ethernet Controller

It's that dang Marvell thing, I think.  When it boots it says Adaptec-HOSTRAID something.  There are also two other SATA 
connectors, seems that they connect to the Intel controller.  Shouldn't ata_piix find it?  Seems like it.  What about a 
Marvell driver for the four drives, am I hosed?  Any ideas?

Relevant stuffs from dmesg

Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
ICH5: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:1f.1
ICH5: chipset revision 2
ICH5: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
     ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio
     ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
Probing IDE interface ide0...
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0
input: ImExPS/2 Generic Explorer Mouse on isa0060/serio1
hdb: ATAPI DVD DD 2X16X4X16, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Probing IDE interface ide1...
Probing IDE interface ide1...
Probing IDE interface ide2...
Probing IDE interface ide3...
Probing IDE interface ide4...
Probing IDE interface ide5...
hdb: ATAPI 40X DVD-ROM DVD-R CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
[ ... ]
libata version 1.11 loaded.
ata_piix version 1.03
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.2 to 64
ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xE200 ctl 0xE302 bmdma 0xE600 irq 18
ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xE400 ctl 0xE502 bmdma 0xE608 irq 18
ata1: SATA port has no device.
scsi0 : ata_piix
ata2: SATA port has no device.
scsi1 : ata_piix



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Re: [gentoo-user] SuperMicro P4SCT+ and SATA

[Norbert Kamenicky]

David Busby wrote:
>   I'm trying to get 2005.1 onto this box I was just gifted.  It's got a
> SuperMicro p4sct+ with a goofy SATA controller.  I've got four hard
> drives in it, connected to these four SATA connectors (labeled like 1/5,
> 2/6, 3/7, 4/8).  I guess i'm using them in 1,2,3,4 mode.  But my gentoo
> cannot see the drives.  lspci sees the controller

*snip*

> It's that dang Marvell thing, I think.  When it boots it says
> Adaptec-HOSTRAID something.  There are also two other SATA connectors,
> seems that they connect to the Intel controller.  Shouldn't ata_piix
> find it?  Seems like it.  What about a Marvell driver for the four
> drives, am I hosed?  Any ideas?

*snip*

Hi David,

AFAIK "ata_piix.c" is developed for intel SATA controllers integrated on
PIIX chipsets only.
Why do you expect it should support Adaptec or Marvell controllers too?

U need some another driver for it, therefore start kernel configuration,
have a look at SCSI device support  ---> SCSI low-level drivers --->
[*] Serial ATA (SATA) support
and find if something on next lines fits to your controller.
If not, then goooogle can be helpful to find it (if it exist).

HTH, noro

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Re: [gentoo-user] SuperMicro P4SCT+ and SATA

[David Busby]

Thank you, this was already solved.
   http://www.edoceo.com/liber/marvell-sata.php

/djb


Norbert Kamenicky wrote:
> David Busby wrote:
> 
> *snip*
> 
> Hi David,
> 
> AFAIK "ata_piix.c" is developed for intel SATA controllers integrated on
> PIIX chipsets only.
> Why do you expect it should support Adaptec or Marvell controllers too?
> 
> U need some another driver for it, therefore start kernel configuration,
> have a look at SCSI device support  ---> SCSI low-level drivers --->
> [*] Serial ATA (SATA) support
> and find if something on next lines fits to your controller.
> If not, then goooogle can be helpful to find it (if it exist).
> 
> HTH, noro
> 
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