I have a motherboard with 8 sata ports the last 4 are controlled by a marvell M88SE6145. I can not get these drives to show up in unRAID. Is there anything I have to do to enable/add the Marvel drivers.

 

Would really appreciate help with this as bought the board especially for an UnRAID setup.

 

I should add that I have tried: 4.7 and 5.0-beta7

 

Thanks

It is always a good idea to search the forums for the motherboard model you are considering before buying it for unRaid. Please post the motherboard model so future users will find this thread.

 

Obviously demand for this chipset has not been brisk, otherwise it would have come up before. Suggest you send an email to the author (Tom) requesting this support be added. Realize it may not happen overnight.

I should have done way more research but I just wanted to get it built as was rapidly running out of storage in my current system.

 

I had seen this post [1] from nearly a year ago and had hoped that they just had not posted the confirmation of it working or Version 5 had a set of updated drivers.

 

[1]: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=5823.0

 

The Motherboard is a mini-itx Jetway JNC9C-550-LF with the expansion card ADPE4S (which has the 4 sata sockets controlled with a M88SE6145)

 

I have also tried (which now works after another reboot)

 

default menu.c32
menu title Lime Technology LLC
prompt 0
timeout 50
label unRAID OS
  menu default
  kernel bzimage
  append initrd=bzroot ahci.marvell_enable=1
label Memtest86+
  kernel memtest

 

Adding this line seems to have fixed the issue: append initrd=bzroot ahci.marvell_enable=1.

 

The on the fly

<code>rmmod ahci && modprobe ahci marvell_enable=1</code>

Does not work for me, the boot option does

Spoke too soon.

 

Drives on the marvell controller do not reliably appear.

When they do they can not be formatted through the web interface, if a formatted drive is moved on to that controller it is seen as unformatted.