Re: Drives not showing up when plugged into Intel 82801GBM ICH7 SATA controller

[mark hellewell <mark.hellewell%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Wednesday, 6 July 2011 at 5:22 PM, Matthias Scheler wrote:

> Are you sure that the system is actually using the ICH7 SATA hostadapter?
> If it were the device would show up like this:
>
>  ahcisata0 at pci0 dev 31 function 2: Intel 82801GB/GR AHCI SATA Controller
>  ahcisata0: interrupting at ioapic0 pin 19
>  ahcisata0: AHCI revision 1.1, 4 ports, 32 command slots, features
0xc720e000
>
> There is however a Marvell storage device of some kind that NetBSD
> doesn't recognize:
>
>  vendor 0x11ab product 0x7042 (SCSI mass storage, revision 0x02) at pci1 dev
0 func
>  vendor 0x11ab product 0x7042 (SCSI mass storage, revision 0x02) at pci2 dev
0 func
Ahâ?¦
> I'm sorry but there is no driver for that, not even in NetBSD-current.
> FreeBSD contains a driver called mvs(4) (Marvell Serial ATA Host
> Controller driver) for this chip but that will probably be hard to port
> to NetBSD. OpenBSD knows the name of the chip but doesn't have a driver.
Thanks for your reply Matthias; I think you're right, and the system isn't
using the ICH7 for the internal drivesâ??it must be for the single eSATA port
on the back of the device. Disappointing, it was going to be a great little
NetBSD machine! For now I guess I'll take a look at Free ;(

Thanks again!
Mark
>  Kind regards
>
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> Matthias Scheler http://zhadum.org.uk/