Hoka ME Tichenci wrote: > I'm currently using an Asus A8N-SLI Premium which offers 8 ports (4 > each) through a SI3114 and CK804 chipset. I have a generic istar/athena > 4 in 3 SATA hot swap cage thats worked for very well with my Areca array > on another system. When booting, it detects the drive just fine > connected to the sata_nv controller. When I detach the drive, it also > cleanly removes the device node. The problem is reattaching a drive > (turning the power back on), libata will apparently detect the new > drive, but then the port will "fail to respond" about twice before the > link is determined. Hi Hoka, I think this patch fixes your problem: http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-ide/msg04992.html -jim - 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