Re: Who is working on the Marvell SATA Chipset?

[Joel Jaeggli]

On Tue, 12 Oct 2004, Andy Warner wrote:

> Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > Tom Dickson wrote:
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> > > Who is in charge of the "in progress" driver for the Marvell 88SX5040?
> >
> > I have a skeleton driver locally, need to get on to finishing it.
>
> Marvell also have drivers for 2.4 and 2.6, but they are under NDA
> etc etc, and ignore libata (they also pre-date libata), so if
> you have hardware that you _must_ get working; they might be
> a useful stopgap.
>
> I'll repeat my eagerness to test anything for the 88SX50xx or 88SX60xx,
> regardless of how primitive it is. My benchmarking with the Marvell
> driver shows the throughput to be excellent.

I would love to be buying the 8 port pci-x marvells for nas boxes where 
we're doing JBOD or software raid.

http://www.supermicro.com/products/accessories/addon/DAC-SATA-MV8.cfm

which is running around $110 at this point.


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