Marvell 88SE9485 SAS/SATA 6Gb/s controller patch

[Maarten Veenstra]

Hi,

The following patch solves the problem of the 88SE9485 controller not being recognized by the kernel:

http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-scsi/msg51816.html

Tested and working on Ubuntu 13.10.

It was suggested to me on #linux on Freenode that I contact the kernel maintainers for the distribution that I use. I hope this is the right place for that.

Best,

Maarten Veenstra
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AlsaDevices:
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 crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 1 Jan 15 01:42 seq
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AplayDevices: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2.2
Architecture: amd64
ArecordDevices: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
AudioDevicesInUse: Error: command ['fuser', '-v', '/dev/snd/seq', '/dev/snd/timer'] failed with exit code 1:
CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=d9d3c390-c2f6-4ba3-9195-c8781d73ba11
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-12-11 (40 days ago)
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MachineType: Supermicro X10SLH-F/X10SLM+-F
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[Brad Figg (brad-figg)]

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[Tim Gardner (timg-tpi)]

Maarten - I am not sure what problem you are attempting to address. It appears that your SATA control is being detected by AHCI at 6 Gps:

[ 2.165417] ata4: SATA link up 6.0 Gbps (SStatus 133 SControl 300)

Furthermore, the patch mentioned in the bug description was merged with 3.0:

git describe --contains 8214028344b4a38aabf73d95347e1e35538c75f6
v3.0-rc1~383^2~46

[Maarten Veenstra (maartenveenstra-gmail)]

Tim,

My apologies, I linked to the wrong patch (that one has been merged, but it also introduced the problem I am attempting to address). The patch I should have included in this bug report is:

https://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/2013/09/msg00184.html

(FYI: The SATA controller on my system is being detected because I manually compiled the mvsas module with above patch).

Best,

Maarten Veenstra

[Tim Gardner (timg-tpi)]

Maarten - that patch does not appear to have made it upstream as of 3.13. Perhaps you could hassle Ben to find out the status of this patch.

[Maarten Veenstra (maartenveenstra-gmail)]

@Tim: Ben replied around the 18th of Februari that he sent the patch upstream again (for the third time).
I would like for this patch to make it to the next LTS version of Ubuntu, do you think there is a chance this will happen?

[HansHook (hans-hook)]

I have a related issue.

There is also a 88SE9485 controller on the
ASUS P9A-I/C2550/SAS/4L (Intel Avoton) Server Motherboard also.

lspci ->

01:00.0 RAID bus controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88SE9485 SAS/SATA 6Gb/s controller (rev c3)
02:00.0 RAID bus controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88SE9485 SAS/SATA 6Gb/s controller (rev c3)

In kernel 3.13.0-40-generic moduel mvsas is not loaded.
Also if mvsas is loded with modprobe -v mvsas no disks are identified by the system.
(Applying the patch above makes no difference.)

Is this a new bug report?

[Leonid Moiseichuk (lmoiseichuk)]

I got the same troubles due to ASUS setups vendor-specific ID as 1043:8635
The working fix is http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=145966676221561

[Leonid Moiseichuk (lmoiseichuk)]

The new variant of patch http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=146005515401214
Was accepted for integration by Martin Petersen http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=146042727922872

Do we have any chance apply this change for 16.04 kernel?

[Leonid Moiseichuk (lmoiseichuk)]

Direct repo link
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi.git;a=commit;h=254d48a09324c5748487db2f349fc7b32b8d1d76