Marvell 88SE6111 IDE Controller

Draradech · Posted: Sat May 12, 2007 11:34 am Post subject: Marvell 88SE6111 IDE Controller

Hello,

I'm running kernel 2.6.21-gentoo (self-compiled, config excerpt follows) and it won't recognize the Marvell 88SE6111 IDE controller, which is on my Mainboard (MSI P965 Neo2). My primary hard drive is connected to one of the ICH8 SATA ports, so no problem there, but my DVD writer is connected to the Marvell controller. Did I do something wrong configuring the kernel, or is this controller just not supported?

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wynn · Advocate Joined: 01 Apr 2005 Posts: 2421 Location: UK

The Marvell 88SE6111 IDE Controller doesn't appear to be supported, in fact, the Device ID (0x6121) is so new it isn't in the current pci.ids table just downloaded.

Only "6101 88SE6101 single-port PATA133 interface" and "6145 88SE6145 SATA II PCI-E controller" are supported by pata_marvell.

As you've probably found out, there is no Marvell driver in the old PATA set.
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sylvain · n00b Joined: 12 May 2007 Posts: 1

Hello,

i have a similar problem with the controller Marvell 88SE614x on the MotherBoard ASUS P5WDG2-WS-Pro.
Linux see not the disks, in Raid1 or not, on this controller.
I have include in my kernel the driver for SATA-MARVEL and the PATA-MARVEL for 88SE614x card, and doesn't work!

Some body can help me ?

Best Regards

Draradech · Posted: Sat May 12, 2007 8:20 pm Post subject:

@wynn:

Any chance at getting this running with some kind of generic ide driver, or via some sort of legacy "emulation" from the bios?
I'm asking, because I find it a bit odd, that WinXP supports that thing without an additional driver, while I can't access it from Gentoo...

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blurp · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 21 Oct 2004 Posts: 102

is there any updates on this? i can't find much info on the development of this driver except:

someone tried to do a patch but seems that it doesn't work (http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0612.2/0221.html)
someone else who tried the patch said it works (http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0701.1/2025.html)
someone else suggested using the ahci driver instead (http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0612.2/0122.html)

I can't try these now because I have no access to the box yet.

waudu · n00b Joined: 19 Dec 2007 Posts: 3

has anyone gotten this to work by now?

i have a marvell 88se6145, which should be supported by CONFIG_PATA_MARVELL but the cdrom drives connected do not show up.

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jac_goudsmit · n00b Joined: 29 Nov 2005 Posts: 4

Just to let you know I got an ASUS P5K WS with Marvell 6121 and I was successful in making it run Gentoo. I'm using a Q6700 (quad core 2.66GHz) CPU and I'm running in amd64 (X86_64/EM64T) mode.

I used a USB-to-IDE converter to connect a PATA CD-ROM drive to the system first (to bootstrap Gentoo), and I used a PCI ATA controller for the harddisk to install Gentoo-amd64. If you don't have a PCI (S)ATA controller laying around, you can do this on another PC or you can install to a USB drive (if you're patient). Or if you have a lot of memory (and you're brave enough to know that you're not going to screw up), you can do the kernel patching without harddisk: just unpack a stage3 and portage-snapshot to /mnt/gentoo, mount proc on /mnt/gentoo/proc and bind-mount /dev on /mnt/gentoo/dev, copy /etc/resolv.conf to /mnt/gentoo/etc, chroot to /mnt/gentoo and you're living in RAM.

I emerged gentoo-sources (2.6.24-gentoo-r4) and genkernel (3.4.9) as part of the install. Then I downloaded the Linux drivers from ASUS website (http://dlsvr03.asus.com/pub/ASUS/misc/sata/Marvell6121_V1009_linux.rar). I unpacked the rar on a Windows system with winrar (shareware, www.rarlabs.com). The RAR file contains a number of .tgz files, all of them contain a floppy image that can be used with redhat or suse (12 different floppy images for two linuxes... silly binary distros!) but also one tarball with an open-source driver. I copied that tarball "61xx-nonraid-source-1.0.0.9.tgz" from the Windows PC to the Linux PC and unpacked it there. The "nonraid" in the name indicates that it won't support RAID -- I don't mind about that.

When I tried to run 'make KERNEL_SRC=/usr/src/linux' to see if it would build as module without problems, I ran into a problem: error: 'struct scatterlist' has no member named 'page'. A quick Google search for the error message resulted in a page where it was explained that some other piece of code in the kernel with the exact same problem was fixed by replacing "sg->page" by "sg_page(sg)" so that's what I did and the module built successfully. A CD-ROM drive connected to the PATA port on the Marvell showed up correctly after I ran "insmod ./mv61xx.ko".

I wanted to patch the kernel so that I could boot from the Marvell so I ran 'make KERNEL_SRC=/usr/src/linux kbuild' as per instructions in the tarball. It said it patched the kernel correctly, but when I did a 'genkernel --menuconfig all', all drivers in the Device Drivers->SCSI Device Support->SCSI low-level drivers were gone! A quick perusal of /usr/src/linux/drivers/scsi/Kconfig showed that the patch had gone slightly wrong: the new lines that were needed to select the drivers had been inserted ABOVE the "if SCSI_LOWLEVEL" instead of below. After I fixed the Kconfig, I did 'genkernel --menuconfig all' again, selected the Marvell Storage Controller 6121/6122/6141/6145 from the menu and voila, the compiled kernel recognized the Marvell. So now I could put the harddisk on the Marvell and boot from it there.

Good luck!

===Jac

emerald · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 31 Jul 2005 Posts: 113

I posted a link to a patch for 2.6.25 in another thread: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-5165677.html#5165677.
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Monogram · n00b Joined: 07 Dec 2004 Posts: 8

I just wanted to give my thanks... great job: emerald... I was trying to resolve this issue for over a week now without much luck - till I came across this posting. I applied all patches and now I got my optical drive on Marvell 6121 controller working fine.

refer to: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-705323.html

May I inquire as to how you achieved this? / how you edited / patched the drivers? I'd love to know.

Thanks again.

emerald · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 31 Jul 2005 Posts: 113

The drivers from ASUS (done by a Marvell guy) were for older kernel (2.6.18 tested) so i just incorporated the in-kernel-changes up to 2.6.25, cleaned up a bit and thats all, so the effort was not so much.
It's just, why keep the work for myself when several other people have the same problem i had (with the new ASUS mainboard i got)

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Dew · Posted: Sun Nov 02, 2008 7:51 am Post subject:

Does this patch also work with newer kernels? Like 2.6.26-r1 I got for example

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emerald · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 31 Jul 2005 Posts: 113

Have a look here:
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-5213724.html#5213724

The patches generally work for the all kernel versions 2.6.xx.yy: all yy values except if there's a newer one posted for a special version (and onwards) (e.g. 2.6.26 version works vor 2.6.26, 2.6.26.1, ...).
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