MARVELL SATA3 problem

[absic]

Has anyone relayed the problem to GGTS? What's GGTS response?

In the early days of this problem, back in March, it was referred to GTS. Check this thread: http://forum.giga-byte.co.uk/index.php/topic,1617.0.html which you, yourself sourced when you started this thread. (check thread 1)

[onemilimeter]

Has anyone relayed the problem to GGTS? What's GGTS response?

In the early days of this problem, back in March, it was referred to GTS. Check this thread: http://forum.giga-byte.co.uk/index.php/topic,1617.0.html which you, yourself sourced when you started this thread. (check thread 1)

I'm sorry because I can't remember the details of all the threads. So, GGTS knew the problem FIVE months ago and runn3R (moderator of this forum) who helped to start this thread also knew the problem.

[Dark Mantis]

No it can be difficult to keep up with all the different threads. Gigabyte is very well aware of the problem and is just hoping it will go away if it ignores it, but I for one am not going to pay £260 for a motherboard that was bought primarilly on the SATA3 performance advertised and just let it drop. If necessary legal action wil be taken.

[onemilimeter]

No it can be difficult to keep up with all the different threads. Gigabyte is very wel aware of the problem and is just hoping it will go away if it ignores it, but I for one am not going to pay £260 for a motherboard that was sold primarilly on the SATA3 performance advertised and just let it drop. If necessary legal action wil be taken.

Agree with DM. It looks to me that Gigabyte does not seem to put enough effort to solve the problem. Gigabyte should response fast to the problem because the life span of IT product is not long. Since GGTS and this official Gigabyte forum can not help, probably we should consider alternative options to pressure Gigabyte to look into this problem seriously. Don't forget also another problem - the audible noise issue of UD3R. I wonder if news agency is interested in the problem because if a product does not deliver what it's advertised then from the consumer point of view this is called "cheating".

[Dark Mantis]

It looks to me that Gigabyte does not seem to put enough effort to solve the problem. Gigabyte should response fast to the problem because the life span of IT product is not long.

From their point of view for effort read money That is one of the reasons they think that they can get away with it because of the short lifespan of IT products.

[F5BJR]

*
For your written compliants , i have that adress list

http://www.gigabyte.fr/Company/Companylist.aspx?CompanyWebPageID=138

Pierre
 

[Dark Mantis]

Thanks Pierre. Have you had any success with booting from a RAID0 array off the Marvell SATA3 ports?

[F5BJR]

*

I have tested last day RAID0 connected to the 88SE9128 with SATA2 disks Hitachi HFT721010SLA360 with WINdows 7

No problem , i can boot

*

I have not tested with SATA3 SSD and SATA3 mechanical disks because i have not

*

My official complaint is only for not RAID5 possibility with external port multiplier enclosure

** RAID 5/10 is also available as an option when the 88SE91xx is connected with a SATA port multiplier **

*

Pierre

   

[absic]

I have tested last day RAID0 connected to the 88SE9128 with SATA2 disks Hitachi HFT721010SLA360 with WINdows 7 No problem , i can boot
   

Well it's nice to know that you can get it to work with SATA2 HDD's but doesn't that kind of defeat the point of the SATA3 Controller?

[F5BJR]

*
Marvell 88SE9128 is the sata3 controller --> no problem

for me i have updated separate SPI flash eeprom with last firmware version 1019

Pierre

* for GA-790XTA-UD4  the chip controller is not Marvell 88SE9128 ( GA-X58A-UD5 )  but AMD SB700

[absic]

Sorry Pierre, I think something got lost in translation.

I know you are using the SATA3 ports but you are using SATA2 HDD's

Surely we should be able to use our SATA3 HDD's without any issue on the  SATA3 ports and gain better performance than if we use SATA2 HDD's on them.

In the User's Manual for my Motherboard (GA790XTA-UD4 Rev1.0 http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3263&dl=1#dl ) it clearly states:
MARVELL 9128 CHIP:
- 2 X SATA 6Gb/s connectors (GSATA3_6, GSATA3_7) supporting upto 2 SATA 6Gb/s devices
- Support for SATA RAID 0 and RAID 1

 The block diagram shows it as passing through the AMD 790X Northbridge chip

[F5BJR]

*
-->   SATA3 ports and gain better performance than if we use SATA2 HDD's on them.
*
no , because the mechanical / electric SATA3 disk performance is similar to SATA2 disk !!

exemple :

WD Caviar Black --> SATA 6 Gb/s --> WD1002FAEX --> 126 Mb/s

WD Caviar Black --> SATA 3 Gb/s --> WD2001FASS --> 138 MB/s

http://www.wdc.com/wdproducts/library/SpecSheet/ENG/2879-701276.pdf

* for SSD disks that is different ( no mechanical )

Pierre

* for Raid5 / 10 sure the mode is not in the motherboard documentation
   but the 88SE9128 can find my enclosure with the 4 * disks and i request that the firmware is brought into conformity
   with the Marvell documentation !!




 

[absic]

OK Pierre,

thanks for the information and the link, however I am trying to use two Western Digital 640 Gig SATA 6GB/s HDD's. From the link that you provided I should see about the same if not a slightly better transfer performance as if I use two Western Digital 640 Gig SATA 3Gb/s HDD's. and I can accept that.

The problem that I am facing is that I cannot actually get my system to run on the SATA3 ports in RAID 0.

Are you saying that this is due to the 6Gb/s HDD's that I am using?

[F5BJR]

*
for your Western Digital Caviar Black SATA3 640 Gb

have you exact reference because many new disks use ' ALIGN option ?

that is a possible problem

solution for WD disks :

1 - use WD Align program for format before install OS

2 - close with a jumper pin 7 & 8

Pierre

[absic]

Hi Pierre,

or your Western Digital Caviar Black SATA3 640 Gb
have you exact reference because many new disks use ' ALIGN option ?
that is a possible problem
solution for WD disks :

I wasn't aware of that little detail!

If you want info of my WD hard drives check out these images: http://img807.imageshack.us/i/info001.jpg/ & http://img84.imageshack.us/i/info002.jpg/ that should give you what you need.