Marvell Storage Controller
I recently built a new system with an Asus PX79 pro motherboard, a HDD and a Crucial M4 SSD. I plugged the HDD and the SSD on the Intel 6G and Marvell 6G port of my motherboard, respectively.
After installing Windows (7 x64) and all drivers, I began to have file corruption issues with the SSD (the HDD ran fine). After many tests, I found that the 'Marvell 91xx 6G sata controller' driver was causing this (I ran the same tests with the driver disabled, and everything was fine). Also, I didn't found any more recent version of the driver on Asus website.
This led me to these questions :
- Could this be a bug with the driver, or me doing something wrong ?
- What is the real use of the driver anyway, if the SSD works without it ? (apart from not having the Windows peripheral manager complaining )
- Should I just give up, leave the Marvell sata port alone, and switch my SSD to the Intel port ?
Thanks for your advice
After installing Windows (7 x64) and all drivers, I began to have file corruption issues with the SSD (the HDD ran fine). After many tests, I found that the 'Marvell 91xx 6G sata controller' driver was causing this (I ran the same tests with the driver disabled, and everything was fine). Also, I didn't found any more recent version of the driver on Asus website.
This led me to these questions :
- Could this be a bug with the driver, or me doing something wrong ?
- What is the real use of the driver anyway, if the SSD works without it ? (apart from not having the Windows peripheral manager complaining )
- Should I just give up, leave the Marvell sata port alone, and switch my SSD to the Intel port ?
Thanks for your advice
Hello,
I have recently built a system, but i'm very new at doing this. I have been able to assemble everything, even install Vista.
But I'm having troubles getting the system to work correctly. Once Vista is up & running, it constantly accesses the HDD. It never stops! I can hardly install the mobo software becasue it's so busy. I believe the fault is with my setup of the HDD.
Compenents:
* WD1002FAEX 1TB SATA (plugged into SATA 6G port)
* Asus P7P55D-E-LX mobo (upgraded BIOS to current version)
* Intel i5 760 Chip
* Vista Home Premium
Questions:
1) Firstly, when I come to install Vista it will not write to HDD until I have given it a driver, because it's a fresh drive. I have had sucess with using Marvell and JMicron drivers. But unfortunately the constant accessing of HDD remains. Which driver is correct to be using?
2) The drive does not show in the BIOS when set to IDE. But it's there and does work correctly. Is that because 6G drives don't show up? I have been reading for 2 days now about IDE, SATA, RAID, AHCI... I am throughlt confused What do I set in BIOS (and how, if you have same BIOS)?
Thankyou very much for any help you can provide.
I have recently built a system, but i'm very new at doing this. I have been able to assemble everything, even install Vista.
But I'm having troubles getting the system to work correctly. Once Vista is up & running, it constantly accesses the HDD. It never stops! I can hardly install the mobo software becasue it's so busy. I believe the fault is with my setup of the HDD.
Compenents:
* WD1002FAEX 1TB SATA (plugged into SATA 6G port)
* Asus P7P55D-E-LX mobo (upgraded BIOS to current version)
* Intel i5 760 Chip
* Vista Home Premium
Questions:
1) Firstly, when I come to install Vista it will not write to HDD until I have given it a driver, because it's a fresh drive. I have had sucess with using Marvell and JMicron drivers. But unfortunately the constant accessing of HDD remains. Which driver is correct to be using?
2) The drive does not show in the BIOS when set to IDE. But it's there and does work correctly. Is that because 6G drives don't show up? I have been reading for 2 days now about IDE, SATA, RAID, AHCI... I am throughlt confused What do I set in BIOS (and how, if you have same BIOS)?
Thankyou very much for any help you can provide.
Marvell Sas Storage Controller Drivers
Marvell 88SE6440 SAS/SATA support found in drivers/scsi/Kconfig. 9480 ('88SE9480 SAS/SATA 6Gb/s RAID controller'); vendor: 1b4b ('Marvell Technology. When no drives found, swapped Windows DVD with a CD containing Marvell SAS drivers - After loading Marvell x64 driver, drive showed up with 'can't install to the location' warning. - After scouring the web, I found this happens when it doesn't see the Windows 7 DVD in the drive. - Put Windows DVD back in drive and warning disappeared. Enterprise SAS Controllers. Marvell offers a wide range of Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) host and RAID controller silicon, as well as the relevant software solutions for servers and external storage systems.