Drivers for Marvell 88SE9230 SATA controller on Linux

Question

I have just purchased a SuperMicro X10SBA, where i intend to use the onboard Marvell 88SE923 SATA controller for RAID1. Unfortunately SuperMicro has written that RAID is only compatible on Windows platform.

How do i determine that it is possible to run in linux, and how do you choose the right distribution that could make it less painful to get up running?

Solution 1

From what I can see, the Marvel; 88se9230 is supported in newer kernels (since 2013 and kernel 3.2 at least). See this bug report and these messages to the linux-ide mailing list.

Based on the above, it should be supported by most recent distributions.

Solution 2

Looks like there was a patch for this. See this site: Marvel Patch

Comments

[Germar]

I'd like to buy the same board. Does RAID1 work with Debian 8 today? Thanks

[JavaCake]

I got RAID running, its some time ago so i do not know the exact procedure.

[JavaCake]

That looks like good news to me, but will it mean i have to do anything special on my clean install of Ubuntu or Debian?

[lmind]

You'd have to diff the kernel to verify whether the patch exists.

[JavaCake]

So there is stil a risk that the implementation is missing even though that i use the latest version Linux Kernel?

[lmind]

Right. Or, you can just try one version higher than the one mentioned in the patch and see whether the device is recognized.