For what it's worth, here is a other update.
Support from Supermicro/Marvell has stopped. Well, they do not bother answering anymore.
It seems that the "new" kernel driver does not play nice with this controller, resulting in a constant resetting of the connection. You know, up to now...
Well ... You won't get the answer from me... Using Linux ;)
This controller is a piece of ***** to get working properly on Linux ( Debian anyway ).
Connected to the AOC-SASLP-MV8 Controller:
/dev/sdc:
Timing cached reads: 2 MB in 21.45 seconds = 95.48 kB/sec
Timing buffered disk...
For what its worth, here's a reply from Marvell ( with supermicro as the go between ) that i got 20min ago:
Its interesting. Every time you are faced with a dead end, getting angry speeds up the communication all off a sudden.
But, it did not exactly answer my questions. We know that the old...
Send another mail to Supermicro, as they are the manufactures. Contacting Marvell has turned out a total dead end.
Time to put some fire under there feet ;)
When they sell a piece of hardware, its expected that the customer can use it. Not that its totally useless because they "forgot" the...
No such luck it seems... Already checked out the drivers cd...
The cd its linux files are under the following
system:/media/scd0/Driver/Linux/3.1.0.7/
system:/media/scd0/Driver/Linux/3.1.0.7/3.1.0.7-rpms
This is identical to the Supermicro's ftp site files, and structure...
Good luck on getting it to work on Ubuntu.
Also got a aoc-saslp-mv8 last week. Installed it, fresh install Debian, .... hmmm... Why are my 8 Seagates SATA disks not showing up in Debian's /dev/xxx folder... They showed up during boot time...
After some digging around, it looks like the...