MVSATA(4) | Kernel Interfaces Manual | MVSATA(4)

# NAME

mvsata — Marvell Hercules-I and Hercules-II SATA controllers driver

# SYNOPSIS

mvsata* at pci? dev ? function ?

# DESCRIPTION

The mvsata driver supports the Marvell Hercules-I and Hercules-II family of SATA controllers, interfacing the hardware with the ata(4) and atapi(4) subsystems.

The following controllers are supported by the mvsata driver:

Adaptec RAID 1420SA
Adaptec RAID 1430SA
Marvell 88SX50xx Hercules-I
Marvell 88SX60xx Hercules-II
Marvell 88SX70xx Hercules-II
Triones Technologies RocketRAID 2310 RAID card

The 88SX60xx and later support Native Command Queuing. The 88SX70xx also supports ATAPI.

# SEE ALSO

ata(4), atapi(4), pci(4), wd(4)

# HISTORY

The mvsata driver first appeared in NetBSD 6.0.

# AUTHORS

The mvsata driver was written by KIYOHARA Takashi <kiyohara@kk.iij4u.or.jp>.

# BUGS

SATA Native Command Queuing is not yet supported.
Device hot swapping is not yet supported.
ATAPI is not yet tested.
Marvell's Software RAID is not yet supported by the
  ataraid(4) driver. raid(4) can be used instead.

July 19, 2009 | NetBSD 6.0