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"? > > i didn't really pay attention to it ... at my currently running system, > it doesn't show up ... but i will keep my eyes open ... Can you please reboot several times and see whether that happens? The bug is quite obscure and I wanna be sure before pushing it upstream. 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