While working on sata_mv today, I noticed something weird in the syslog. The messages from libata show "ata73" for the port with my drives (pmp), but the messages from SCSI (sd) show "sd 72" for those same drives. One would really think that these two numbers should agree, not be off by one. I wonder why they differ (or why they are almost the same) ? ata73.00: ATA-7: ST3400832AS, 3.03, max UDMA/133 ata73.00: 781422768 sectors, multi 0: LBA48 NCQ (depth 31/32) ata73.00: configured for UDMA/133 ata73.02: ATA-7: ST3400832AS, 3.03, max UDMA/133 ata73.02: 781422768 sectors, multi 0: LBA48 NCQ (depth 31/32) ata73.02: configured for UDMA/133 ata73: EH complete ata74: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300) ata75: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300) ata76: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300) scsi 72:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA ST3400832AS 3.03 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 sd 72:0:0:0: [sdb] 781422768 512-byte hardware sectors (400088 MB) sd 72:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off sd 72:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 sd 72:0:0:0: [sdb] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA sd 72:0:0:0: [sdb] 781422768 512-byte hardware sectors (400088 MB) sd 72:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off sd 72:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 sd 72:0:0:0: [sdb] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA sdb: sdb1 sd 72:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk sd 72:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0 scsi 72:2:0:0: Direct-Access ATA ST3400832AS 3.03 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 sd 72:2:0:0: [sdc] 781422768 512-byte hardware sectors (400088 MB) sd 72:2:0:0: [sdc] Write Protect is off sd 72:2:0:0: [sdc] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 sd 72:2:0:0: [sdc] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA sd 72:2:0:0: [sdc] 781422768 512-byte hardware sectors (400088 MB) sd 72:2:0:0: [sdc] Write Protect is off sd 72:2:0:0: [sdc] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 sd 72:2:0:0: [sdc] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA -- 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