With 2.6.29, when I hotplug a western digital mybook into a 'Silicon Image, Inc. SiI 3132 Serial ATA Raid II Controller', the drive is not found: *** drive failed due to user induced sillyness ... [18676.308750] sd 0:0:0:0: [sdb] Stopping disk [18676.308770] sd 0:0:0:0: [sdb] START_STOP FAILED [18676.308774] sd 0:0:0:0: [sdb] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK,SUGGEST_OK *** drive plugged back in [18767.821747] ata1: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0xe frozen [18767.821756] ata1: irq_stat 0x00b40090, PHY RDY changed [18767.821775] ata1: hard resetting link [18774.633185] ata1: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 0) [18774.773591] ata1.00: applying link speed limit horkage to 1.5 Gbps [18779.655674] ata1: hard resetting link [18781.861074] ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 10) [18782.178565] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100 [18782.178579] ata1: EH complete And then nothing. The device is still alive - if I plug it back in through its usb interface, it comes up normally. I know from experience that if I was to reboot the machine, it would have come up quite nicely from boot: [ 9.780090] ata1: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 0) [ 9.916218] ata1.00: applying link speed limit horkage to 1.5 Gbps [ 16.981087] ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 10) [ 17.291757] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100 [ 17.291874] scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA WD My Book 01.0 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 [ 17.291959] sd 0:0:0:0: [sdb] 1953525168 512-byte hardware sectors: (1.00 TB/931 GiB) [ 17.291972] sd 0:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off [ 17.291974] sd 0:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 [ 17.291994] sd 0:0:0:0: [sdb] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA [ 17.292051] sd 0:0:0:0: [sdb] 1953525168 512-byte hardware sectors: (1.00 TB/931 GiB) [ 17.292150] sd 0:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off [ 17.292153] sd 0:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 [ 17.292176] sd 0:0:0:0: [sdb] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA [ 17.292179] sdb: sdb1 [ 17.372927] sd 0:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk This is another attempt plugging in another mybook disk: [20662.149223] ata1: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0xe frozen [20662.149233] ata1: irq_stat 0x00a00080, device exchanged [20662.149252] ata1: hard resetting link [20672.164117] ata1: softreset failed (timeout) [20672.164139] ata1: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 0) [20672.164143] ata1: link online but device misclassified, retrying [20672.164146] ata1: hard resetting link [20674.372055] ata1: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 0) [20674.510116] ata1.00: applying link speed limit horkage to 1.5 Gbps [20679.372028] ata1: hard resetting link [20681.572066] ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 10) [20681.880986] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100 [20681.880999] ata1: EH complete Still no /dev/sd* I haven't tried booting into a kernel prior to these updates: http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/2/2/447 -- TimC Yay! I have found the last bug bug bug bug bug bug bug bug bug bug bug bug bug bug bug bug bug bug bug bug bug bug bug bu%$@#$@#%$@# Error: Missing Carrier Signal -- 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
