Tejun, The result of my test: Loading the driver at boot: ahci 0000:00:0f.0: AHCI 0001.0000 32 slots 4 ports 3 Gbps 0xf impl SATA mode ahci 0000:00:0f.0: flags: 64bit ncq pm led clo pmp pio slum part ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xE0006D00 ctl 0x0 bmdma 0x0 irq 10 ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xE0006D80 ctl 0x0 bmdma 0x0 irq 10 ata3: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xE0006E00 ctl 0x0 bmdma 0x0 irq 10 ata4: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xE0006E80 ctl 0x0 bmdma 0x0 irq 10 scsi0 : ahci ata1: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300) ata1.00: ATA-7, max UDMA/133, 156301488 sectors: LBA48 NCQ (depth 0/32) ata1.00: ata1: dev 0 multi count 16 ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133 scsi1 : ahci ata2: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300) scsi2 : ahci ata3: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300) scsi3 : ahci ata4: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300) scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA ST3808110AS 3.AA PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 SCSI device sda: 156301488 512-byte hdwr sectors (80026 MB) sda: Write Protect is off sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back SCSI device sda: 156301488 512-byte hdwr sectors (80026 MB) sda: Write Protect is off sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4 < sda5 sda6 sda7 > sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sda sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0 Turning my drive on/mount/umount/off: ata2: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x4060000 action 0x2 frozen ata2: (irq_stat 0x00000040, connection status changed) ata2: waiting for device to spin up (8 secs) ata2: hard resetting port ata2: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300) ata2.00: ATA-7, max UDMA/133, 160086528 sectors: LBA ata2.00: ata2: dev 0 multi count 0 ata2.00: configured for UDMA/133 ata2: EH complete scsi 1:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA Maxtor 6Y080M0 YAR5 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 SCSI device sdb: 160086528 512-byte hdwr sectors (81964 MB) sdb: Write Protect is off sdb: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 SCSI device sdb: drive cache: write back SCSI device sdb: 160086528 512-byte hdwr sectors (81964 MB) sdb: Write Protect is off sdb: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 SCSI device sdb: drive cache: write back sdb: sdb1 sdb2 sd 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sdb sd 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0 ReiserFS: sdb1: found reiserfs format "3.6" with standard journal ReiserFS: sdb1: using ordered data mode ReiserFS: sdb1: journal params: device sdb1, size 8192, journal first block 18, max trans len 1024, max batch 900, max commit age 30, max trans age 30 ReiserFS: sdb1: checking transaction log (sdb1) ReiserFS: sdb1: Using r5 hash to sort names ata2: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x30000 action 0x2 frozen ata2: (irq_stat 0x04400000, PHY RDY changed) ata2: hard resetting port ata2: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300) ata2: failed to recover some devices, retrying in 5 secs ata2: hard resetting port ata2: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300) ata2: failed to recover some devices, retrying in 5 secs ata2: hard resetting port ata2: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300) ata2.00: disabled ata2: EH complete ata2.00: detaching (SCSI 1:0:0:0) Synchronizing SCSI cache for disk sdb: FAILED status = 0, message = 00, host = 4, driver = 00 <3>ata2: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x4060000 action 0x2 frozen ata2: (irq_stat 0x00000040, connection status changed) ata2: waiting for device to spin up (8 secs) ata2: hard resetting port ata2: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300) ata2.00: ATA-7, max UDMA/133, 160086528 sectors: LBA ata2.00: ata2: dev 0 multi count 0 ata2.00: configured for UDMA/133 ata2: EH complete scsi 1:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA Maxtor 6Y080M0 YAR5 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 SCSI device sdb: 160086528 512-byte hdwr sectors (81964 MB) sdb: Write Protect is off sdb: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 SCSI device sdb: drive cache: write back SCSI device sdb: 160086528 512-byte hdwr sectors (81964 MB) sdb: Write Protect is off sdb: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 SCSI device sdb: drive cache: write back sdb: sdb1 sdb2 sd 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sdb sd 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0 ReiserFS: sdb1: found reiserfs format "3.6" with standard journal ReiserFS: sdb1: using ordered data mode ReiserFS: sdb1: journal params: device sdb1, size 8192, journal first block 18, max trans len 1024, max batch 900, max commit age 30, max trans age 30 ReiserFS: sdb1: checking transaction log (sdb1) ReiserFS: sdb1: Using r5 hash to sort names ata2: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x30000 action 0x2 frozen ata2: (irq_stat 0x04400000, PHY RDY changed) ata2: hard resetting port ata2: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300) ata2: failed to recover some devices, retrying in 5 secs ata2: hard resetting port ata2: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300) ata2: failed to recover some devices, retrying in 5 secs ata2: hard resetting port ata2: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300) ata2.00: disabled ata2: EH complete ata2.00: detaching (SCSI 1:0:0:0) Synchronizing SCSI cache for disk sdb: FAILED status = 0, message = 00, host = 4, driver = 00 As you see it works!! Only you found FAILED by synchronizing the SCSI cache for disk sdb. Is that a problem or did I forget anything? Tejun: Did you also make NCQ working? Aalderd. On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 11:18 +0900, Tejun Heo wrote: > Hello, > > This patchset updates libata and ahci to improve vt8251 EH and hotplug > support. > > #01 : separate out sata_port_hardreset(), to be used by vt8251 reset > #02 : update CLO handling in softreset and kill RESET_NEEDS_CLO > #03 : update vt8251 support in ahci > > This patchset is against the current #upstream > (da54f5fe54c7d75e2db7d17961fb36a8c28a8501). > > Aalderd, can you test this patchset? > > Thanks. > > -- > tejun > > > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html