| MVSATA(4) | Device Drivers Manual | MVSATA(4) |
mvsata —
mvsata* at pci? dev ? function ?
mvsata driver supports the Marvell Hercules-I and
Hercules-II family of SATA controllers, interfacing the hardware with the
ata(4) and
atapi(4) subsystems.
The following controllers are supported by the
mvsata driver:
mvsata driver first appeared in
NetBSD 6.0. NCQ support was added, and ATAPI support
enabled, in NetBSD on October 7, 2017 .
mvsata driver was written by
KIYOHARA Takashi
<kiyohara@kk.iij4u.or.jp>.
NCQ support was added by
This controller hardware is very old and pretty peculiar, with poor ATAPI support. It's very unlikely that the driver will receive any further changes, particularily not for the Gen I and Gen II controllers. Use an ahcisata(4) compatible controller instead.
| October 24, 2018 | NetBSD 9.4 |