Hello, > It involves a long timeout, so it's bothersome. This is caused by > Silicon Image 4726/3726 storage processor (SATA Port Multiplier with > extra features) attached to one of the ICH ports. Yes, I think this is the part Asus is using for it's EZ-Raid feature on this motherboard, and they seem to like their EZ-Raid, so it's likely to become more and more common. > If the first downstream port in the PMP is empty and it gets reset in I confirm it is empty in my config. > work very well with the current ATA reset sequence and gets identified > only after a few failures thus causing long timeout. 30s to 1min ;( > I keep forgetting about this. I'll ask SIMG how to deal with > this. For > the time being, connecting a device to the PMP port should remove the > timeouts. That sounds a quite expensive solution ;) Paul - 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