MVSATA(4) Device Drivers Manual MVSATA(4)

NAME

mvsataMarvell Hercules-I and Hercules-II SATA controllers driver

SYNOPSIS

mvsata* at pci? dev ? function ?

DESCRIPTION

The mvsata 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

ata(4), atapi(4), pci(4), wd(4)

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 not enabled on Gen II controllers yet.
 
Device hot swapping is not yet supported.
 
Marvell's Software RAID is not yet supported by the
ataraid(4) driver. raid(4) can be used instead.
October 7, 2017 NetBSD 8.99