Jeff Gustafson wrote: > Hi all, > I found issue similar to the one I am having in the archive on this > list. I never found a resolution to the problem in the archive. > I have a 4-port Sil 3124 64-bit PCI-X card in a Dell PowerEdge 750. It > is connected to four SATA hard drives in an external drive bay that > provides power and hotswap rails. > There doesn't seem to be a problem running three drives, but as soon as > I do something with a forth drive all hell breaks loose. The problem > doesn't seem localized to a slot in the drive bay or a particular drive. > The issue seems to only happen when I try to access a forth drive. > I have also tried the card in another system (in a 32-bit slot) and I > experience the same problem. What if you take the fourth drive out of the bay and power it directly from the computer's PSU? -- 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