[CentOS] SATA errors in log

[Steve Brooks]

On Fri, 22 Jun 2012, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:

> Hi, Steve,
>
> Steve Brooks wrote:
>> On Fri, 22 Jun 2012, Steve Brooks wrote:
>>> On Fri, 22 Jun 2012, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
>>>> Steve Brooks wrote:
>>>>> On Fri, 22 Jun 2012, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
>>>>>> Steve Brooks wrote:
>>>>>>> On Fri, 22 Jun 2012, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
>>>>>>>> Steve Brooks wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I have a SATA PCIe 6Gbps 4 port controller card made by Startech.
>>>>>>>>> The kernel (Linux viz1 2.6.32-220.4.1.el6.x86_64) sees it as
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>   Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88SE9123
>>>>>>>>>
>>>> Is this your card?
>>>
>>> Yes that is the very card, the page says the chipset is Marvell 88SE9128
>>> but "lspci" shows
>>>
>>> Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88SE9123 PCIe SATA 6.0 Gb/s controller
>>
>> It is odd because the kernel reports it as "88SE9123" the web page says it
>> is "88SE9128" as does the manual supplied with the card. Now the
>
> Yeah, I noticed that too, and thought it odd.
> <snip>
> I looked at the "manual", and the only thing that came to mind was to try
> going into the BIOS and making sure that it was set to AHCI rather than,
> say, IDE, or whatever.


Thanks Mark for the reply , I hadn't thought about the card posting drives 
in the bios, I assumed only the onboard SATA devices would allow you 
change the mode in the motherboard's BIOS. I will have a look on Monday to 
see if anything has appeared in the BIOS. I guess the default mode in a 
SATA6 card would be AHCI but yes worth a check.

Cheers,

Steve