Hello all, I have recently upgraded my Tyan S2885 motherboard and repurposed it to become a file server. In doing so, I picked up a Supermicro SAT2-MV8 which is based on a Marvell chipset. So far everything comes up good, an am planning on 16 hard drives total, the first 4 that I've hooked up for vetting and benchmarking work well.
One thing that's come to my attention before I go forward is that when I run lspci -vv, I've noticed this: # lspci -vv -s 03 03:03.0 SCSI storage controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. MV88SX6081 8-port SATA II PCI-X Controller (rev 09) --snip-- Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- --snip-- Capabilities: [60] PCI-X non-bridge device Status: Dev=03:03.0 64bit+ 133MHz+ SCD- USC- DC=simple DMMRBC=512 DMOST=4 DMCRS=8 RSCEM- 266MHz- 533MHz- Am I reading the above wrong? Under capabilities is says Status as well, but earlier it's simply status. So I'm wondering if the bus is at 66MHz and the card is somehow at 133? I don't fully understand the output. From what I can tell, the card is running at 66MHz, though the capabilities list it as capable of 133MHz. I've double checked that the jumpers are set correctly on the motherboard and am concerned that I'm somehow doing something wrong. After googling a bit, I only found one topic about something like this and the poster suggested that linux will not show 133MHz speeds via lspci. I'm not sure what I should believe. Is there any tool I can use to test this setup to be sure what speed it's running at? Is there anything else I can do or check? Thanks. PS. I'm running wheezy, but this output was taken from grml which is based on an older version of wheezy with kernel 2.6.38 .. if that makes a difference I can try this with the latest debian live distro. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120213172633.358ac...@ws82.int.tlc