On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 09:57:20AM -0700, felix@crowfix.com wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 06:05:30PM -0400, Michael Mol wrote:
>
> > I have a couple "MV88SX6081 8-port SATA II PCI-X Controller" devices I
> > picked up from Newegg a couple years back. They work beautifully.
>
> It came, I installed it, it shows a BIOS page on reboot, and lspci
> knows about it. However, the two drives on it are unrecognized.
>
> Does this require some specific kernel options or modules or firmware?

Aiieee! For some reason, my kernel has every SATA driver configured EXCEPT sata_mv.

I'll report back in a while ....

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On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 12:45 PM, <felix@crowfix.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 09:57:20AM -0700, felix@crowfix.com wrote:
>> On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 06:05:30PM -0400, Michael Mol wrote:
>>
>> > I have a couple "MV88SX6081 8-port SATA II PCI-X Controller" devices I
>> > picked up from Newegg a couple years back. They work beautifully.
>>
>> It came, I installed it, it shows a BIOS page on reboot, and lspci
>> knows about it. *However, the two drives on it are unrecognized.
>>
>> Does this require some specific kernel options or modules or firmware?
>
> Aiieee! *For some reason, my kernel has every SATA driver configured EXCEPT sata_mv.
>
> I'll report back in a while ....

You should be able to put it in AHCI mode somewhere in the
BIOS/settings and be able to use the ahci driver instead. I have this
similar chipset and use ahci driver with no problems:

SATA controller [0106]: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88SE9128 PCIe
SATA 6 Gb/s RAID controller [1b4b:9128] (rev 11)

On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 10:45:27AM -0700, felix@crowfix.com wrote:

> Aiieee! For some reason, my kernel has every SATA driver configured EXCEPT sata_mv.
>
> I'll report back in a while ....

That did it. I now have 8TB of new drive to play with. Thanks for the card recommendation and all the patience :-)

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