Rusty Conover wrote: > Putting just one hard disk into the PMP slots, works great all by > itself. I created an ext3 fs on it, used dd to dump lots of data to it, > no problems in all of my testing. Hmmmm.. > One hard disk in a PMP slot and another hard disk in a native slot on a > different SATA port work great together. Okay. > Two hard disks in the same PMP slot range (slots 1-2), timeout right away. > > Could it be a problem with timing the PMP requests? Very unlikely. > I've tested this on a second separate machine and I'm seeing the same > timeout errors. Can you try different combinations (e.g. use different slots of the same PMP, use the slots from the other PMP)? I still think it's some sort of hardware issue. -- 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