From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <741922ff992b23c7cdd136a5151682b9@quanstro.net> From: erik quanstrom Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 09:49:21 -0400 To: 9fans@9fans.net In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] hardware idea Topicbox-Message-UUID: c25e442c-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > The Marvell SoC only has the one controller with two ports going out > anway so I am pretty sure it's a SATA port multiplier you would be > playing around with in there, and that's going to be fustrating. it has one controller with 2 edma units (ports). see p. 70, chp 8 fig. 14 of http://www.marvell.com/files/products/media/88F5182_User_Manual.pdf for details. this is similar to ahci which can have up to 32 ports per controller without a port multiplier. - erik