On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 12:45 PM, <fe...@crowfix.com> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 09:57:20AM -0700, fe...@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)