Re: Marvell SATA Driver
On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 05:15:57PM +1100, Vaibhav Agrawal wrote:
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> Hi All,
> I'm not able to install Debian Stable 3.1 r1 on Super Micro Server
> 6014H-T, during installation when it reaches the partition hd section,
> it says can not find any media to partition.
> I know the problem here is the SATA controller which is Marvell
> (Adaptec) 4-port / 8-port SATA Driver (Hercules-II), I can install
> Windows 2003 Server after downloading and installing addition drivers
> from Supermicro website.
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> The other option i have got is to install SUSE or FreeBSD, but I don't
> wanted to install anything other than Debian.
sid 2.6.15 kernel has mv_sata, which is a libata based marvell sata driver. It
fails horribly on powerpc so i was not able to try it out.
There is also a standalone driver distributed by marvell which you can
download and build as an external module. The module in question is or has
long been non-free, so it could naturally not have been included in debian.
Actually it was of the 'you don't even have right to look at the sources' kind
of non-free even :)
Just install a 2.6.15 kernel on your sarge box (with backported udev, klibc,
initramfs-tools and co), and it shoulod be fine, or if you need the installer
use a daily build or an upcoming etch beta2 installer image.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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