Asus P5Q Pro - Marvel Sata - Only one port is working

spiryt · n00b Joined: 22 Feb 2004 Posts: 45

Hi,

I have an Asus P5Q Pro motherboard with Intel ICH10 and Marvel sata controllers

[code]03:00.0 IDE interface: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88SE6121 SATA II Controller (rev b2)[/code]

In BIOS i have AHCI mode configured along Normal mode with Drive X pert.

[code]03:00.0 IDE interface: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88SE6121 SATA II Controller (rev b2)[/code]

The problem is that only one port of the marvel controller is being seen by the kernel. The other port is simply not showing.
Aparrently the Marvel controller uses pmp. (I can get two drives to show under windblows). I was under the impression that libata provided port multiplier support. I am running gentoo-kernel 2.6.27.

dmesg is showing the second port with the following line:

[code][ 10.494275] ata8: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m1024@0xfafffc00 port 0xfafffd80 irq 16
[ 11.120028] ata8: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)[/code]

I have tried swapping the cables just to make sure that it is not the physical connection problem but it does not look like it is.

Any ideas anyone ?

KarlisRepsons · Apprentice Joined: 03 Nov 2008 Posts: 229 Location: Latvia

Anyone got eSATA to work normally on this kind of board?

fbcyborg · Advocate Joined: 16 Oct 2005 Posts: 3056 Location: ROMA

Yes, my external sata works like a charm.
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Martux · Veteran Joined: 04 Feb 2005 Posts: 1917

fbcyborg · Advocate Joined: 16 Oct 2005 Posts: 3056 Location: ROMA

According to the manual (P5QL PRO user’s manual(English) - Version E3929), at page 2.2, I connected the external sata port to the SATA4 connector. But automount doesn't work to me too actually.
I don't know how to get it working, and this is another issue.
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Martux · Veteran Joined: 04 Feb 2005 Posts: 1917

That' s afaik the ich10 port. I also connected it there, so I could deactivate the Marvell chipset in bios.
I don' t think automount will works.
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fbcyborg · Advocate Joined: 16 Oct 2005 Posts: 3056 Location: ROMA

I'm little bit confused. Where's the Marvell connector? Could you locate it in the manual?
By the way, I didn't compile the Marvell sata support in the kernel.

As regard the automount, I guess it won't never work.. when you connect an external sata drive, it's like you insert an hot swappable hard drive in the bay.
Also in this case automount doesn't work actually.

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Martux · Veteran Joined: 04 Feb 2005 Posts: 1917

The ICH10 ones are the black connectors, the marvell ones the coloured.
At least that' s with my p5q.
For the mounting I did an alias in my /root/.bashrc to minimize the hassle.
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fbcyborg · Advocate Joined: 16 Oct 2005 Posts: 3056 Location: ROMA

Perhaps I don't see any black connector..

Maybe something is distracting me... :/
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