Tejun Heo wrote: >Brian & Chamaigne Scamman wrote: >> One remaining issue is the "failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error, err mask=0xll)" >> message. If the PMP, bridges and drives are powered up before I insert the >> eSATA cable in to the controller, I don't receive the message. The message >> appears when only when I have the eSATA cable attached to the controller and >> then simultaneously power on the PMP and drives. In the attached dmesg log, >> the drive is eventually recognized; however there have been a couple of >> times when the drives aren't recognized. An eSATA cable remove/re-insert >> fixes the problem. > >Hmm... can you please post the failing log? In my previous post, there are two cases where the drive wasn't initially recognized, but did respond after a PMP link reset (ata3.00 and ata3.03). I'll post a log today were one of the drives is never recognized (doesn't happen that often) -Brian -- 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