@Fernando
I have updated MARVELL driver (AHCI mode) from V 1.2.0.1014 to V 1.2.0.1045.
TRIMCHECK is working fine with this new version which drives my SSD Samsung PRO 840.
A great progress.
Driver Info, Bench results (Marvell and Intel) are here.

@Fernando,
I have done the TRIM test just after updating from V 1.2.0.1014 to V 1.2.0.1045.
You can see drivercontrollerinfo screenshot reported well the new version.
However, after restarted few minutes ago the PC, I do again the TRIMCHECK tests and the TRIM seems no longer working....
I don't really understand why.
So, may be we have to come back to V 1.2.0.1014 to be sure TRIM is functional in any case.
What do you think about ?

The asrock supplied Marvell 9230 orom is faulty its locked at gen1 pci-e

I had a full spi backup though so was an easy revert..

Before



After

Zitat von FantoMax im Beitrag #164

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I have an old A8N-SLI normal with a LINDY PCIE sata III card with marvell 9230 rev. id 10.
I updated the firmware/bios from:
http://www.asrockrack.com/support/ipmi.asp
and downloaded from:
Marvell 9230 FW update Procedure

and this is my new Bios

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He was the person to point out the Marvell 9230 2.3.0.1063 rom was he not??

so im replying to him letting him know that its locked at gen1 pci-e

Hi Shonk, thanx for the info. My lindy Card is PCIe gen2 but ATM my motherboard has only PCIe gen1 so 2.5Gbps x2 is the best for me. In the future I will test on motherboard with PCIe gen2 and see the result....
If you want, from station drivers site (http://www.station-drivers.com/), you will find also the Firmware 2.3.0.1055 / Bios 1.0.0.20 that I had before. At your risk and post the result. The Script flashes the ImageA1.bin and you have the right Rev.id 11.

I already realised that your motherboard was gen 1
but other people may flash like myself and not notice like i did

2.3.0.1055 from stationdrivers i have flashed in the past its fine

Here's an old screenshot of it


oh i forgot to mention i installed the Marvell Storage Utility to double check
and it was in gen1 mode for sure

Marvell Storage Utility 2.3.0.1063


Marvell Storage Utility 2.3.0.1051

Can anyone say if this new Marvell driver will support TRIM in a RAID 0 setup?

ok, will bear that in mind when trying to work out what to do with my old 2 old 80gig Intel drives, i am fed up of struggling to live within 80 gig for my C: drive, and had wondered about joining my two together.

How are you struggling to stay within 80gb
all of my machines are around 10-14gb C drives
apart from one machine that my son uses to game on
his C drive is about 20gb then he has the D drive to install games on

Zitat von Shonk im Beitrag #179

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How are you struggling to stay within 80gb

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Fernando,
Here are the bench results about AHCI Intel driver vs Marvell driver using Samsung SSD 840 PRO connected respectively on a Intel 6G port and a Marvell 6G port.
Bench tool is Magician 4.5.
DriverController_Info:

Samsung Magician benchmark:


Do you see what to do to improve slightly the Marvell low performance ?