[MinnowBoard] Sata port multiplier enabled?

[Hawley, John]

On Tue, 2014-09-09 at 08:11 +0000, Markus Maier wrote:
> Hawley, John <john.hawley at ...> writes:
> 
> > 
> > Bryan,
> > 
> > After doing some digging, tearing through the documentation and doing
> > some testing, I must sadly report: No SATA port multipliers are not
> > supported on the MAX with the on-board SATA.  This is a limitation of
> > the SOC itself, and not an issue that firmware isn't enabling it.
> > 
> > I've updated the documentation where I could find it, to make sure that
> > was clear.
> > 
> > - John
> > 
> > On Fri, 2014-09-05 at 00:34 -0400, Bryan Smith wrote:
> > > Hey Guys,
> > > 
> > > I've been eager to utilize my 4 drive bay but I can only use 1 drive out
> > > of 4 because the sata port multiplier doesn't seem to be enabled in the
> > > firmware. I talked to some folks in #minnowboard on IRC a few weeks ago
> > > about this but I'm wondering when that will be enabled?
> > > 
> > > Any idea?
> > > 
> > > Thanks,
> > > 
> > > Bryan
> > 
> 
> Hi John,
> 
> then I would highly appreciate if we could get the SATA controllers running
> on the seacat lure. David knows about it and is investigating. This seems to
> be the only way to get more HDDs attached to the Minnwoboard MAX.

Is there a known issue with running an mPCI-E sata controller from the
Seacat?  I haven't had a chance to pick up any mPCI-E sata controllers
for testing yet, but all the mPCI-E cards I've thrown at the Seacat so
far have worked (not there there's many Seacats out there yet...)

- John