On 10/06/11 17:43, Tim Small wrote: > > I've ordered an 88SE9128 card (Hightpoint RocketRaid 620) as well, so > I'll be able to compare the two, as well as a sata_mv 88SX7042 as well. > OK, so in fact it seems that I'd ordered a RocketRaid 620WDA - which has an 88SE9125 on it, not a 88SE9128 (as the 620 has). If I remember correctly (it was a couple of weeks ago now - just before I went on holiday) the 620WDA did actually work with the SiI 3726 PMP in FSC mode, when I was using the original HighPoint firmware which it shipped with, but it doesn't when I use the Marvell Firmware (I didn't want to try the Marvell firmware on the 620WDA, but the Marvell firmware update utility I had "upgraded" it - and now I can't put the Highpoint firmware back on it - partly because I don't have a copy of it anywhere). I was actually trying to upgrade the 88SE9123 firmware at the time - that turned out to be quite a lot more difficult than I was expecting: http://buttersideup.com/files/flashrom/lycom-pe115-flashrom-buspirate-2.jpg http://buttersideup.com/files/flashrom/at26f004-support.patch Marvell guys - can you tell whoever writes your DOS "mvf.exe" firmware updater for the 88SExxxx cards, that the update process fails to unprotect sectors on Atmel AT26F004 SPI flash chips - it also fails to check for protected sectors prior to attempting programming - so that you end up with part of one firmware version together with parts (which were in protected sectors) of whatever was there before. Also - actually automatically backing up the previous firmware would be nice, as well as some instructions for going back to the previous version in a README file (PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE), instead of leaving the users to scour the Internet for solutions to restoring non-working cards: http://www.station-drivers.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=11162#p11163 ... oh, and whilst I think about it, when upgrading the flash on a machine with multiple adaptors - if the updater fails to successfully update one adaptor, maybe it should then STOP, rather than steaming on and breaking the rest of the cards in the same machine one after the other? Anyway, after all that I didn't actually get working PMP support with either card - at least not with that particular firmware image (which contains the version string: 1.0.0.1028 and is in "U3S6R0.zip" from http://www.station-drivers.com/page/marvell.htm ) the 88SE9125 seems to read successfully, but gives extremely slow read speeds - around 1 megabyte per second for simultaneous drive accesses in FBS mode, whereas the 88SE9123 gives the same behaviour as it did with the original firmware i.e. timeouts + resets during simultaneous reads in FBS mode. Is there a different firmware version which I should be trying with this card? Any chance of an actual changelog for the different firmware versions? Anyone have a 620WDA and wouldn't mind backing up the firmware from it for me? Is there a datasheet for the 88SE91xx chips around that I can get hold of - NDA or otherwise? Thanks, Tim. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
