Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934060Ab0BQHeO (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Feb 2010 02:34:14 -0500 Received: from swm.pp.se ([212.247.200.143]:50093 "EHLO uplift.swm.pp.se" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933934Ab0BQHeM (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Feb 2010 02:34:12 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 390 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Wed, 17 Feb 2010 02:34:11 EST Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 08:27:39 +0100 (CET) From: Mikael Abrahamsson To: Jeff Garzik cc: The Government , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linux IDE mailing list Subject: Re: sata_mv driver support for Marvell Hercules II controller in newer kernels In-Reply-To: <4B7B9241.9070101@garzik.org> Message-ID: References: <549084.45576.qm@web45206.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> <4B7B9241.9070101@garzik.org> User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (DEB 962 2008-03-14) Organization: People's Front Against WWW MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1468 Lines: 35 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/