Tim Blechmann wrote: >>>>> Can you please try the attached patch and report the result? The bug >>>>> shouldn't happen now and for cases where it would have happened, >>>>> libata will report "link online but device misclassified" and retry. >>>> this patch cannot be applied onto stable-2.6.31/master ... e.g. the >>>> first chunk is already in there .... >>> Eh... the first chunk was for the current devel branch. Here's a >>> version without that one. >> Ping. > > i haven't run into any further issues with this patch ... so i somehow > guess, it solved the problem ... In your boot logs, do you ever see messages like "link online but device misclassified, retrying"? -- 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