freebsd stable - Aug 2005 - 6024H-T / X6DHT-G / Marvell H2 SATA

Hello All,

For 5.4, FreeBSD AMD64 (and i386) is not able to recognize my diamond-max 160G
SATA drives on a Supermicro 6024H-T / X6DHT-G board with the default Marvell H2
SATA ctrl'r.  There are SATA drivers for RH, FC3 and Windows from
Supermicro:
ftp://ftp.supermicro.com/driver/Diskimag/Adaptec/Marvell/H2/

Is there any way to get FreeBSD to run on this machine?  It runs on windows so
it does not appear to be hardware or BIOS config.

It's a dual XEON (Nocona) 3.2G board with the Intel E7520 chipset.

Thank you,
Sejo

fbsd wrote:
> Hello All,
> 
> For 5.4, FreeBSD AMD64 (and i386) is not able to recognize my diamond-max
160G SATA drives on a Supermicro 6024H-T / X6DHT-G board with the default
Marvell H2 SATA ctrl'r.  There are SATA drivers for RH, FC3 and Windows from
Supermicro:
> ftp://ftp.supermicro.com/driver/Diskimag/Adaptec/Marvell/H2/
> 
> Is there any way to get FreeBSD to run on this machine?  It runs on windows
so it does not appear to be hardware or BIOS config.
> 
> It's a dual XEON (Nocona) 3.2G board with the Intel E7520 chipset.
> 
> Thank you,
> Sejo
> 
Marvell does not release programming specs for their SATA chips, nor do
they sell them for use as stand-along SATA controllers.  The drivers
that are on the Supermicro site are for Adaptec's software RAID solution
that uses the Marvell chips.  These drivers are binary only,
unfortunately.  It's a shame, because the Marvell chips are actually
pretty good.  My challenge for someone to reverse engineer them is still
open.

Scott