Re: Marvell 88SE9485/9445 controllers

Kiril L wrote:
> After searching around i didnt find any info regarding Marvell
> 88SE9485 compatibility with smartmontools.
>
> At the moment i use LSI 9211-8i flashed Dell PERC H310 and cannot get
> SMART info under Windows. HDD guardian can but i look for something
> else that should work in general with more SMART tools.

HDD guardian uses smartctl internally. Some LSI drivers for Windows 
reportedly support CSMI. Please try "smartctl --scan".


> Because of that i think for a new motherboard - like Asus
> P9A-I/C2750/SAS/4L or Asus P9A-I/C2550/SAS/4L which have Marvell
> 88SE9485 controllers. I was wondering how would smartmontools work
> with these motherboards?

Is this a RAID controller? If yes, it is probably not supported on any 
platform:
https://www.smartmontools.org/wiki/Supported_RAID-Controllers


> The only thing i found about Marvell and smartmontools is:
>> marvell - [Linux only] interact with SATA disks behind Marvell chip-set controllers (using the Marvell rather than libata driver).

This is specific to a very old (~2004) Marvell driver for Linux.

Thanks,
Christian


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