Robert Hancock wrote: > Tony Battersby wrote: >>> The BIOS could be tristating the ports. Does it work if you issue >>> manual rescan (echo - - - > /sys/class/scsi_host/hostN/scan)? >>> >> No luck. I get: >> >> ata1: hard resetting link >> ata1: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 0) >> ata1: EH complete >> >> And the drive isn't seen. > > Well, if the controller reports link down there likely isn't much the > kernel can do about it. I assume that ata1 is in fact where that drive > gets detected if it's plugged in at boot - you could try all the other > hosts to be sure.. This is consistent with the BIOS tristating those ports. I don't remember the name of the register. I'll look it up later. Thanks. -- 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