NAME
mvsata —
Marvell Hercules-I and Hercules-II SATA
controllers driver
SYNOPSIS
mvsata* at pci? dev ? function ?
DESCRIPTION
Themvsata driver supports the Marvell Hercules-I and
Hercules-II family of SATA controllers, interfacing the hardware with the
ata(4)
and atapi(4) subsystems.
The following controllers are supported by the
mvsata driver:
- Gen I
-
- SATA 1.5Gbps; no support for NCQ, PMP, ATAPI
- Supported controllers:
- Marvell 88SX50xx Hercules-I
- Gen II
-
- SATA 3Gbps, NCQ, and PMP support; no ATAPI support
- Supported controllers:
- Adaptec RAID 1420SA
- Marvell 88SX60xx Hercules-II
- Gen IIe
-
- SATA 3Gbps, NCQ, PMP, ATAPI support
- Supported controllers:
- Adaptec RAID 1430SA
- Marvell 88SX70xx Hercules-II
- Triones Technologies RocketRAID 2310 RAID card
SEE ALSO
HISTORY
The mvsata driver first appeared in
NetBSD 6.0. NCQ support was added, and ATAPI support
enabled, in NetBSD on October 7, 2017 .
AUTHORS
The mvsata driver was written by
KIYOHARA Takashi
<kiyohara@kk.iij4u.or.jp>.
NCQ support was added by
Jaromir Dolecek
<jdolecek@NetBSD.org>.
BUGS
- NCQ is only enabled on Gen IIe controllers.
- Device hot swapping is not yet supported.
- Marvell's Software RAID is not supported by the
- ataraid(4) driver. raid(4) can be used instead.
This controller hardware is very old and pretty peculiar, with poor ATAPI support. It's very unlikely that the driver will receive any further changes, particularily not for the Gen I and Gen II controllers. Use an ahcisata(4) compatible controller instead.