Linux : Enabling Marvell Sata Drive

Recently got a Sata Drive for a thankyou for helping my parents.

My motherboard is a M2V and has the SATA2 (aka 300gig per second). It is on the Marvel chip 88SE61xx. Yet the only problem I initially couldn't see it :/ Yet I managed to figure it out :)

Symptoms
You cannot see the sata drive by either using the following command

df -h

OR

sudo fdisk -l

Enabling the Driver

Ubuntu 9.04

1) Start a super user edit of the Grub menu settings

sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst

2) Add "ahci.marvell_enable=1" (excluding double quotes) to a line at the end "kopt",
For example :

# kopt=root=/dev/mapper/vg0-root ro ahci.marvell_enable=1

3) Finalize the changes

sudo update-grub

4) Reboot the machine and your drive should now be visible :)

Further Reading
Enabling the Marvell Sata on an Asus M2V
Full credit to this person's blog!!!! As older posts via forums, wikis etc got miss leading.