eSATA Drive Detection issues on mvsas

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Hi,
I have couple of external drives (Western Digital and Seagate) that have an eSATA interface. My Linux box with a Marvell HBA (9445) running Ubuntu 12.04 with 3.2.48 kernel doest not seem to detect the drive. I tried with the latest upstream kernel and it behaves the same. But both the drives detect fine if I enter the mvsas BIOS during bootup. So I have hooked up a SATA analyzer and this is what I found - When I tried to detect the drives in the mvsas BIOS, all the ATA commands that the bios issues have the port multiplier byte set to 0. - If I bootup my Linux system and then connect the drives, the first IDENTIFY command has the port multiplier set to 0 (this one is successful) and the subsequent IDENTIFY command has port multiplier set to 1 (this one fails). - If I connect any other SATA drives I have to the HBA, all the ATA commands have port multiplier set to 1 but they detects and work fine.

Just to rule out the port-multiplier possibility I changed the following line in drivers/scsi/libsas/sas_ata.c - fucntion sas_ata_qc_issue()

ata_tf_to_fis(&qc->tf, 1, 0, (u8*)&task->ata_task.fis);

to

ata_tf_to_fis(&qc->tf, 0, 0, (u8*)&task->ata_task.fis);

now all my drives seem to detect just fine. I believe, the eSATA interface on these external drives is a port multiplier, which is why the command fails. Also, the normal drives ignore this field thats why they work fine with port multiplier being set to either 0 or 1.

Question(s): Are my above assumtions correct? If so, what is the reasoning behind setting the port multiplier to 1 by default in libsas layer?

Thanks,
Praveen



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