On Thu, 2009-06-11 at 11:31 +0200, Marc Bowes wrote: > I'm not sure if you can attach files, but here goes (attached as dmesg.txt) Actually, this shows the problems are on two unoccupied ahci ports: > [ 0.685269] ahci 0000:0a:00.0: version 3.0 > [ 0.685279] ahci 0000:0a:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16 > [ 0.696040] ahci 0000:0a:00.0: AHCI 0001.0000 32 slots 2 ports 3 Gbps 0x3 impl SATA mode > [ 0.696283] ahci 0000:0a:00.0: flags: 64bit ncq pm led clo pmp pio slum part > [ 0.696453] ahci 0000:0a:00.0: setting latency timer to 64 > [ 0.696592] scsi0 : ahci > [ 0.696907] scsi1 : ahci > [ 0.697224] ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m8192@0xec400000 port 0xec400100 irq 16 > [ 0.697461] ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m8192@0xec400000 port 0xec400180 irq 16 > [ 6.969039] ata1: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0) > [ 10.743038] ata1: softreset failed (device not ready) > [ 10.743191] ata1: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300) > [ 10.743344] ata1: link online but device misclassified, retrying > [ 17.015051] ata1: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0) > [ 20.789041] ata1: softreset failed (device not ready) ... Could you confirm that there are actually no devices it's supposed to be detecting? It looks like the AHCI controller at 00:0a:00.0 might be some form of piix controller in the ICH10 bridge ... does lspci confirm this? I remember you said you had: > The ATA controllers: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) 2 port > SATA IDE Controller. Yet the log is finding six ports: four on the piix and two on the problem ahci .. is that right? James -- 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