Tim Valenzuela wrote: > Good news: This patch does correct the IO access errors. > Bad news: The sata driver now performs exactly like previous kernels, my > sata3 works, sata4 has IDENTIFY errors. The patch doesn't do anything about that problem, so it's expected. > [ 26.927349] ata4: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 310) > [ 26.961636] ata4.00: ata_hpa_resize 1: sectors = 625142448, > hpa_sectors = 625142448 > [ 26.961754] ata4.00: ATA-7: WDC WD3200AAKS-00SBA0, 12.01B01, max > UDMA/133 > [ 26.961843] ata4.00: 625142448 sectors, multi 0: LBA48 NCQ (depth 0/32) > [ 26.979289] ata4.00: failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error, err_mask=0x1) > [ 26.979376] ata4.00: revalidation failed (errno=-5) > [ 26.979458] ata4: failed to recover some devices, retrying in 5 secs > [ 32.451247] ata4: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 310) > [ 32.475231] ata4.00: failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error, err_mask=0x1) > [ 32.475317] ata4.00: revalidation failed (errno=-5) > [ 32.475401] ata4.00: limiting speed to UDMA/133:PIO3 > [ 32.475483] ata4: failed to recover some devices, retrying in 5 secs > [ 37.947188] ata4: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 310) > [ 37.971173] ata4.00: failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error, err_mask=0x1) > [ 37.971259] ata4.00: revalidation failed (errno=-5) > [ 37.971341] ata4.00: disabled Can you swap the two disks and see what happens? It seems the second IDENTIFY after configuring transfer mode fails. I'm curious whether that's caused by the disk or the controller. -- 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