Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Wed, 17 Feb 2010 08:27:39 +0100 (CET) | | From | Mikael Abrahamsson <> | | Subject | Re: sata_mv driver support for Marvell Hercules II controller in newer kernels |
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On Wed, 17 Feb 2010, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> On 02/16/2010 10:44 PM, The Government wrote: >> Hey guys, >> >> I'm using a Supermicro aoc-sat2-mv8, which is supposedly supported by the >> Linux kernel by "sata_mv" driver. Unfortunately, I've been unable to >> troubleshoot why newer distros (and thus kernels) are not detecting/using >> sata_mv for this card. I tried an (older) Slackware 12.1 install disk, that >> for some reason works by use of sata_mv (12.1 was released may 2008, when I >> think sata_mv was still beta). Anyhow, I've tried many newest releases from >> Slackware, Arch, etc - and it seems newer kernels do not properly recognize >> this card. I'm not sure what to make of the newer kernels saying "adaptec >> aacraid driver" is being used (an incorrectly detected driver?). Anyway, I >> was told this chipset had great linux support - does it still? Thanks a >> lot. >> >> (please CC me for replies, thanks a lot) > > (cc linux-ide added) > > We need a lot more hard detail, such as lspci and dmesg output.
Hi,
the aoc-sat2-mv8 is properly recognised and used (sata_mv) in Ubuntu 10.04 anyway (2.6.32) so it's not strictly a kernel issue.
-- Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@swm.pp.se
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