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Date:      Tue, 14 Oct 2008 03:59:17 +0200
From:      "Vincent Barus" <vibarus@googlemail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: LG combo drive and Attansic Technology ethernet card on Asus P5Q Pro
Message-ID:  <e4207650810131859s7ce18b15pfb785801848aa105@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi,
maybe Andrey Elsukov can help with this Marvell chips:
http://butcher.heavennet.ru/patches/kernel/ata/marvell/README.txt
He worked on it for a few months.

Regards,

Vincent

On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 9:39 AM, Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 04, 2008 at 12:33:04AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
>> On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 11:49:01PM +0100, Dieter wrote:
>> > >> The drive is a new LG combo drive, I believe GH22LP20 or something close to it.
>> >
>> > I have an older LG PATA combo drive which works ok.
>> >
>> > Does it show up when booting?  (Does dmesg work from the installation shell?)
>> >
>> > Maybe you need to "kldload atapicam" ?  Or is that only needed for writing,
>> > I forget...
>> >
>> > > The only thing I can think of is that the P5Q boards use a Marvell
>> > > ATA/IDE controller (yes, you read that correctly).  I wonder if FreeBSD
>> > > somehow lacks support for this...
>> >
>> > 7.0 ata man page claims support for:
>> >
>> >      Marvell         88SX5040, 88SX5041, 88SX5080, 88SX5081, 88SX6041,
>> >                      88SX6081, 88SX6101, 88SX6141.
>>
>> None of these are what's on the P5Q series boards.  The P5Q series
>> boards use a Marvell 88SE6102 Super I/O chip, which also drives IDE/PATA
>> devices.  (SATA is driven via ICH10 or ICH10R).
>>
>> I'm left to believe FreeBSD simply lacks support for this very new
>> Marvell chip.  I'm willing to bet there is no sign of ata(4) devices nor
>> atapci(4) PCI association during boot-up.
>
> Mac folks are seeing the same problem:
>
> http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=128985
> http://www.insanelymac.com/lofiversion/index.php/t99634.html
>
> Wikipedia states the 88SE6121, not the 88SE6102, is used on P5Q series
> boards.  But the P5Q SE motherboard manual states it's a 88SE6102.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Marvell_Technology_Group_chipsets
>
> So either the motherboard manual is wrong, Wikipedia is wrong, or the
> P5Q SE and P5Q Pro contain different models/versions of ICs.
>
> When I get a P5Q SE for Yong-Hyeon, I'll make note of what's
> silkscreened on the ASIC.
>
> --
> | Jeremy Chadwick                                jdc at parodius.com |
> | Parodius Networking                       http://www.parodius.com/ |
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