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How to get a Marvell 88SE6145 (and probably 6121) sata controller working on new kernels

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	How to get a Marvell 88SE6145 (and probably 6121) sata controller working on new kernels by Ian Campbell-9 :: Rate this Message: \| View Threaded \| Show Only this Message So I just got bitten by an idiotic bug in recent Linux kernels, and figured I'd share. Symptoms are being unable to access (or install if it's your primary/only controller) SATA drives on Marvell controllers. I gather PATA is unaffected. Ubuntu 8.04 (which I think is 2.6.24) was unaffected, 8.10 (2.6.27) is. I believe 2.6.25 and 2.6.26 were affected as well. This isn't distro-specific, I've seen people complaining about it on SuSE as well. You'll see things in the syslog looking like this: Oct 19 23:18:34 leviathan kernel: [ 5.085025] scsi6 : pata_marvell Oct 19 23:18:34 leviathan kernel: [ 5.085093] scsi7 : pata_marvell Oct 19 23:18:34 leviathan kernel: [ 5.085131] ata7: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x3018 ctl 0x3024 bmdma 0x3000 irq 16 Oct 19 23:18:34 leviathan kernel: [ 5.085133] ata8: PATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x3010 ctl 0x3020 bmdma 0x3008 irq 16 Oct 19 23:18:34 leviathan kernel: [ 5.085152] BAR5:00:04 01:7F 02:22 03:C8 04:02 05:00 06:00 07:80 08:00 09:00 0A:00 0B:00 0C:1F 0D:00 0E:00 0F:00 snipped about 20 lines of md0 being sad Oct 19 23:18:34 leviathan kernel: [ 10.520156] ata8.01: qc timeout (cmd 0xec) Oct 19 23:18:34 leviathan kernel: [ 10.520163] ata8.01: failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error, err_mask=0x4) Oct 19 23:18:34 leviathan kernel: [ 15.560030] ata8: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0) Oct 19 23:18:34 leviathan kernel: [ 20.544020] ata8: device not ready (errno=-16), forcing hardreset Oct 19 23:18:34 leviathan kernel: [ 25.852020] ata8: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0) Oct 19 23:18:34 leviathan kernel: [ 30.556020] ata8: SRST failed (errno=-16) Those last couple lines will loop for a while. Sometimes the system will finish booting, sometimes it won't, but the drives won't show up. Then I stumbled on this: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/linux/kernel/968813 It's an amusing thread, but the result is that there's a patch present in 2.6.27. I added this to /etc/modprobe.d/options: options ahci marvell_enable=1 ... and ran update-initramfs -u I'm not sure if that last step is really necessary, but it can't hurt. I think you may be able to set that on the boot line as well, ahci.marvell_enable=1, but I'm not sure. Setting that option has the AHCI module take over the drives instead of the (awful) pata_marvell driver. Downsides are that you'll lose the IDE controllers, but at least in my case that's no contest. Not sure how common the chipsets are, I've got the 6145 on my motherboard, which is an Intel D975XBX2. Hope this saves someone some time. _______________________________________________ nSLUG mailing list nSLUG@... http://nslug.ns.ca/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nslug attachment0 (202 bytes) Download Attachment
	Re: How to get a Marvell 88SE6145 (and probably 6121) sata controller working on new kernels by TahirAlgan :: Rate this Message: \| View Threaded \| Show Only this Message i thank you so mach I was already best long busy with this problem I have DSEB-DG Mainboard extra sata raid chipset on mainboard Marvell 88se6145 If i enable Marvell Sata on mainboard Ubuntu 8.10 give samting els errno=-16 I added this to /etc/modprobe.d/options options ahci marvell_enable=1 and run update-initramfs -u shutdown enable Marvell and i see its works thank you so mach Ian Campbell-9 wrote: So I just got bitten by an idiotic bug in recent Linux kernels, and figured I'd share. Symptoms are being unable to access (or install if it's your primary/only controller) SATA drives on Marvell controllers. I gather PATA is unaffected. Ubuntu 8.04 (which I think is 2.6.24) was unaffected, 8.10 (2.6.27) is. I believe 2.6.25 and 2.6.26 were affected as well. This isn't distro-specific, I've seen people complaining about it on SuSE as well. You'll see things in the syslog looking like this: Oct 19 23:18:34 leviathan kernel: [ 5.085025] scsi6 : pata_marvell Oct 19 23:18:34 leviathan kernel: [ 5.085093] scsi7 : pata_marvell Oct 19 23:18:34 leviathan kernel: [ 5.085131] ata7: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x3018 ctl 0x3024 bmdma 0x3000 irq 16 Oct 19 23:18:34 leviathan kernel: [ 5.085133] ata8: PATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x3010 ctl 0x3020 bmdma 0x3008 irq 16 Oct 19 23:18:34 leviathan kernel: [ 5.085152] BAR5:00:04 01:7F 02:22 03:C8 04:02 05:00 06:00 07:80 08:00 09:00 0A:00 0B:00 0C:1F 0D:00 0E:00 0F:00 snipped about 20 lines of md0 being sad Oct 19 23:18:34 leviathan kernel: [ 10.520156] ata8.01: qc timeout (cmd 0xec) Oct 19 23:18:34 leviathan kernel: [ 10.520163] ata8.01: failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error, err_mask=0x4) Oct 19 23:18:34 leviathan kernel: [ 15.560030] ata8: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0) Oct 19 23:18:34 leviathan kernel: [ 20.544020] ata8: device not ready (errno=-16), forcing hardreset Oct 19 23:18:34 leviathan kernel: [ 25.852020] ata8: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0) Oct 19 23:18:34 leviathan kernel: [ 30.556020] ata8: SRST failed (errno=-16) Those last couple lines will loop for a while. Sometimes the system will finish booting, sometimes it won't, but the drives won't show up. Then I stumbled on this: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/linux/kernel/968813 It's an amusing thread, but the result is that there's a patch present in 2.6.27. I added this to /etc/modprobe.d/options: options ahci marvell_enable=1 ... and ran update-initramfs -u I'm not sure if that last step is really necessary, but it can't hurt. I think you may be able to set that on the boot line as well, ahci.marvell_enable=1, but I'm not sure. Setting that option has the AHCI module take over the drives instead of the (awful) pata_marvell driver. Downsides are that you'll lose the IDE controllers, but at least in my case that's no contest. Not sure how common the chipsets are, I've got the 6145 on my motherboard, which is an Intel D975XBX2. Hope this saves someone some time. _______________________________________________ nSLUG mailing list nSLUG@nslug.ns.ca http://nslug.ns.ca/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nslug
	Re: How to get a Marvell 88SE6145 (and probably 6121) sata controller working on new kernels by TahirAlgan :: Rate this Message: \| View Threaded \| Show Only this Message I installed Ubuntu 8.04.1 on my Server whit kernel 2.6.24-21-server options ahci marvell_enable=1 is not working but options ahci.marvell_enable=1 is working
	Re: How to get a Marvell 88SE6145 (and probably 6121) sata controller working on new kernels by kosztyua :: Rate this Message: \| View Threaded \| Show Only this Message Hi, I have a very similar problem and your solution did not work for me. In my server i have an ASUS P5BV-C/4L board which has the same Marvell 88SE6145 as the second raid controller with an Ubuntu 8.10 intrepid and 2.6.27-11 kernel. After setting the modprobe.d/options as mentioned and updating initramfs, it shows the very same error. Any idea?