what marvell would i have ? my motherboard said it was a 9128 marvell chip and it had pata. Ive seen people that show the booting screen show it say its a 9123 and they switch modes in bios to ide and itll change to 91a3. my ide plugin on my motherboard doesnt work. and i dont know how to test what other features, or things work. my sata2 intel ich10r evga ftw3 board doesnt give me full ssd speed, the write speed is capped at around 245, i know these ssds do more and sata2 was supposeed to have a max speed i hread of 280mb which my read speed does hit but it was faster, before on the bench test program for hardrives I used to test.

So I have no idea whats missing to make my pc work.



heres a picture of my screen when i flashed the chip with the downloads from the motherboards website for it. And I seen an scsi filter in device manager, but I'm not sure where I seen it at, thought marvell, but it might of been intel.. I was using an updated intel chip oRom. and I think the marvell actually gave me an scsi filter, but I dont remember so muc now.

and i seen these bioses for marvell here, for the 91xx series. AHCI & RAID ROM Modules version 1.0.0.1038 . would i want to use the 91a3? 9128? are them just different parts of the same chip or what? i need my sata2 intel speeds to run full speed, right now its a stock bios latest oRom intel and the matching ahci drivers. Ahci mode. My Secondary IDE controller in device manager gives me a Vendor ID that ive looked up and htey said it was marvell. so, maybe i need a different marvell chip. this board was used and put on a shelf and not used much..

I doubt that this MArvel chip can do more than 250+ write on a ssd, Ive never managed to get anywhere near full sata3 speeds out of it.

Have already flashed it to the 1038 from Stationdrivers but it changed the id to 9123. Is there a 9128 id corrected image or newer one than the 1038. OS boots fine on the card in achi. Tried changing all the 9123 ids to 9128 and corrected the checksum but wouldn't pass the marvell flasher does it need offset correction too. Thanks for any info you can provide

does it matter if you flash 9123' to 9128?

does a 9128 need updated? how can i tell what to just put on my marvell? what if parts are missing? is there only 1 file to flash?

That I can tell no it doesn't matter if the ID gets changed as it still works. Just wanted to change the ID back to 9128 back by flashing a modded version of the same image with the ID updated to 9128. Updated to see if I could get better throughput as my Samsung 850 Pro preforms poorly on the Marvell Sata 3 controller and wasn't passing TRIM in achi. Had to use the older drivers to get TRIM working. For the add-on you need the full image from stationdrivers which has the firmware bootloader and bios in 1 image that it flashes. Motherboard based Marvell chips can be flashed the same way, also some can be done with updating the .bin in the BIOS. Have to be carful though as some have reported that they bricked there motherboard Marvell controllers flashing the newer firmwares seems to be a problem with some motherboards.

i dont think it really matters if it says 9128 or not. i dont even know what this does or is supposed to do or if it was bricked, or not.

I cant understand what i got or what goes with it or what anybody else on here is doing. I read that topic about a 9128 I think.. and it has a zip file on the front page. and if you go looking through it, theres a big old mash of just stuff and things and i havent got any idea what any of it does. how to start looking at it. WHat id like to do is take what I got and update what i need to make what i got work and do what its supposed to do.

Im not sure if, these things happen with a 9128. There, Bootable. There trim in raid?? in which raid mode. works or not. Which mine is and what it does. If this marvell controller is just the sata3 with read speeds almost at sata3 speed and the write speed a little less than sata2, and its able to be trim and raided and booted up together. Without any speed loss, with it being a benefit. Or what.

Reading through that zip file im just totally confused. I have no idea what to start to go whatever. My board gives me on my intel sata2 ports the same write speeds as marvell shows in the many tests ive read online. the slower 240's speeds. ive had the same drives on another computer with sata 2 intel ports and got 20* more mb/per second speed on writes than on this board with the marvell sata3. On the sata 2 ports.

I mean i dont care less if marvell does or does not give me less, WRITE speed cause my intel sure sucks and the IDE is disabled on my board. came like this. and im confused. sure would like to know what to use to get ide working. Maybe it would fix the sata 2 since sata .. im not even sure what sata2 means. When s-ata is really only IDE in a different plugin connection, type right?

Zitat von lordkag im Beitrag #81

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@skan

Since you saw firmware 2.1.0.1502 in Marvell Utility, this shows that the firmware in use is the one in a separate chip, not the one from main BIOS, which should be 2.1.0.1113. But are you saying you have an option to use the firmware from inside the main BIOS? If so, you should have no problem in using Ctrl+M and look at the ID and version. You should also look at my initial message, where I posted links to a software called Marvell RAID Utility, which should do the same thing from inside Windows. Also look in Device Manager and post the ID. Read carefully my initial message.

It is too bad you flashed a new firmware without saving the old one. Never do that again. By having the old firmware it would have been so much easier for me to select the right ID. I now have to think about choosing between 9123, 91A3 or 9128.

The screen when using "go -r -y" looks suspicious. It has problem setting variables, which could also mean it has problem passing arguments. Using "go -r -y" should just read the chip, no erasing/flashing, no question asked. Did it ask you to press "Y" or has it just continued with the operations? Try to create a new USB using Rufus, format as FAT32 and use MS-DOS. Try again "go -r" without "-y" and press "Y" when asked to. If it still tries to flash, then use the firmware from Station-Drivers and type "go -r", then "Y" to confirm. Check if there is an IMAG_RB.BIN on the USB. Make sure it is not already there from previous flashes. You already flashed a new firmware from U3S6Rx, so this dump image doesn't provide the info I need, but we need to make sure the flasher works and does what it is asked for, to not run into other troubles.

The ID mismatch is because you used an image built for U3S6R0 - 9123, so no surprise here. The direct command for reading should be "mvf_mag.exe image -newImg -r" or simply "mvf_mag.exe -r". But "go -r" should do the same, unless there is a problem with your DOS image.

Since there is not much useful info I can get, here are the images. If you don't want to mess with modded firmware, here is an official one in this post. It has the latest components, but: it was released for an Asrock board which also has an IDE controller linked to Marvell 9128; it has 9123 ID, while your BIOS has 91A3 ID. Use this if you don't trust my guess.

Or you can use the image I posted, which has the latest components, but: original autoload from mainboard BIOS with 9123-91A3 ID; OROM with 91A3 ID. Your pick! Either way, please post the result of the flash and a screen of Ctrl+M, if it works, of course.

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Zitat von Atomic im Beitrag #180

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Please, help me!
I have MSI Star Sata 6/Usb 3 with mv-9128.
I flash mv1928 mod firware(BIOS Version :1.0.0.1038, Firmware Version: 2.3.0.1007) with AHSL mode, but my new SSD Crucial MX200 running slower write (Crystal Disk mark).
Please, help me found original firmware (bios 1.0.0.1013, fw 2.1.1.1407) or firware with CPU IDE mode, not AHCL.
Many THX and sorry for my bad english.

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Zitat von Gast im Beitrag #184

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does it matter if you flash 9123' to 9128?

does a 9128 need updated? how can i tell what to just put on my marvell? what if parts are missing? is there only 1 file to flash?

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Zitat von lordkag im Beitrag #162

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The ID is selected depending on the controller's mode: 91A3 in IDE, 9123 in AHCI, 9128 in RAID. If you have a controller only capable of IDE or AHCI, it will have the right ID. If you have a controller capable of RAID, like 9128, it will use an OROM with 9123 ID and switch it on the fly to match the mode. Use 9123 ROM/BIOS if you have 9128 controller - this is Marvell's way of doing things. As for the IDE label, haven't seen anyone else mentioning it, don't know if it is something you can fix. Use proper ID as explained above, check in mainboard BIOS, check in Marvell BIOS.

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Hi all,

First I would like to thank all of you for the work done since here, it helped me a lot to undestand what was going wrong with my Marvell 88s9128.

Let's start from the begining ...
I bought a Startech PEXSAT32 board with this Marvell 9128 chip a few days ago.
I try to install it on my old asus m2n-vm dvi motherboard in order to add some hard drives on it (I use it as a sort of NAS and dlna server)
Unfortunately, board doesn't work at all, freeze on start, no access to motherboard bios.

I get in touch with Startech in order to see if there some known issue with my motherboard : no.
They told me to update the firmware of the board and see if it's better, on their site, they provide one : https://sgcdn.startech.com/005329/media/...re/Firmware.zip
Of course, I can't update the firmware without booting with the board on a computer and my m2n doesn't boot with it.
Fortunately, I got at home a msi 970A-G43 left by a friend.
Marvell board installed on this motherboard : boot ok, ctrl+m ok with a hard drive attached, so board seems ok.

With total confidence from Startech, I upgrade the firmware, of course without making a backup, as the go -h doesn't tell it was possible and I was confident ...
First error ... After reboot, same issue on the msi : freeze at startup without any video output (on the asus, video was ok till trying to access the marvell board I suppose)

Of course, I don't know what firmware was on the board, I just remember the firmware version : 2.3.0.1013, because I was surprised to have a newer firmware than the firmware in the startech update. Bios was older, something like 0033 ?

I'm really sorry I can't tell more about the versions ...

Since that, I managed to flash some of the firmwares found on station driver or here (shorting pin 5 of spi to the ground at boot and releasing it after) but I wasn't able to have something working on the msi motherboard yet : two issues : freeze or board not recognized.

If somebody have some idea ? (first to get the board alive again and perhaps to know why it doesn't worked at all on the asus m2n ? )

After reading this thread, I think there's something bad with autoload but I don't know the original version ... (bios 3033 or 3038 and firmware 1007, I think they're ok ? )

@wasisdn

hello, In my search for an improvement to my old and faithful sabertooth x58 I came across this post update your version of bios mods, but something strange happens bios startup is slow as save your changes, you'll know what happens?

"sabertooth-x58-mod-1402-latest_marvel1038+fw2301007_intelrste12.9-trimmod_jmicron1.07.28+realtek-lan-rom2.64_updated.rom"

@wasisdn
@lordkag

hello, In my search for an improvement to my old and faithful sabertooth x58 I came across this post update your version of bios mods, but something strange happens bios startup is slow as save your changes, you'll know what happens?

"sabertooth-x58-mod-1402-latest_marvel1038+fw2301007_intelrste12.9-trimmod_jmicron1.07.28+realtek-lan-rom2.64_updated.rom"

yes this is my modded version and I'm using this with my Sabertooth x58 without any problem.
I'm even running 2x4gb WD red in RAID0 on Marvel and external RAID5 Enclosure connected via Jmicron eSATA.

whitch part of the Bios startup is slow?

@wasisdn

since I turn on the PC it takes longer than usual in the BIOS information displayed and if I enter the bios and keep some change remains suspended until responds and leaves.

you can try another modded bios version see whether has same issue or not.

attached rar file contains few mods and original bios v1304 & v1402 for Sabertooth x58