Tejun Heo <tj <at> kernel.org> writes: > > On 01/22/2010 12:57 AM, Paul Check wrote: > > I am having an intermittent problem: > > > > ata1.01: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 301) > > > > which is causing one of my four hard drives to not get recognized. > > Most likely fixed by commit 5040ab67a2c6d5710ba497dc52a8f7035729d7b0. > Can you please try 2.6.33-rc5? > > Thanks. > I've been having intermittent SATA troubles as well recently (Ubuntu 9.10, kernel 2.6.31-17). So here I am after a quick search on Google and it looks like you've already fixed the problem. I'm no expert on SATA protocol or anything, but reading the diff of that commit looks like it sure does address my problem. I'm really just here to extend a sincere THANK YOU, to Tejun and all the people that work on this stuff. I'm not sure if it matters or not, but for whatever reason on my box, the problem happens pretty reliably after a long power off cycle (its been off >18 hours when I turn it on). I've never seen it fail on a subsequent reboot, even with a short power cycle. I may have to try compiling the kernel for myself to see if it truly fixes it. I haven't built a kernel in a long time, but maybe I'll give a whirl again. Again thanks! - Tim -- 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
