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MVSATA(4)               NetBSD 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.

NetBSD 6.0                       July 19, 2009                      NetBSD 6.0