Am 12.07.2013 00:38, schrieb Paul Hartman: > On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 5:06 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger <li...@xunil.at> wrote: >> Am 03.07.2013 00:42, schrieb Paul Hartman: >>> On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 2:56 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger <li...@xunil.at> wrote: >>>> >>>> Does anyone use that controller with gentoo? >>>> >>>> If yes, which driver/module does support it? >>>> >>>> I ordered one for a server and did not really check the facts ;-) >>> >>> Looks like it uses the LSI SAS2008 chipset (basically LSI controller >>> with HP branding), so you should enable kernel module mpt2sas >>> (CONFIG_SCSI_MPT2SAS) and probably some other SAS-related options will >>> be required as well if you don't already use them. >> >> lspci shows something else here: >> >> >> # lspci | grep SATA >> 00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset >> Family 6-port SATA Controller [AHCI mode] (rev 04) >> 38:00.0 SATA controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88SE9172 SATA >> 6Gb/s Controller (rev 11) >> 3d:00.0 SATA controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88SE9172 SATA >> 6Gb/s Controller (rev 11) >> >> so I have to look for Marvell stuff ... module "mv_sas" does not work >> yet, no scsi-tape-device visible. > > Hmmm, even the data on HP's website says H222 uses LSI SAS2x08 chipset > and mpt2sas driver. I think maybe those Marvell entries are > SATA/eSATA ports on your motherboard. Or you don't have the same H222 > I am seeing online when I search. :) > > BTW that Marvell chipset should work with the ordinary kernel AHCI driver.
did some screwdriver engineering: lspci -v > with-card.txt poweroff; remove card lspci -v > without-card.txt vimdiff ... interesting ... the diff is some block with "PCI bridge" only .. it seems as if the card isn't detected at all. The card has "hp" stickers on it and "SAS9205-4i4e" which googles as HP222 ... Stefan
