Hi, Jeff, I bought a bunch of PCI cards and tested them, only one running AHCI using Marvell 88SE9125 controller chip. It worked well with the patched kernel at bootup, hotplug, and data transfer. I put an order of a JMicron AHCI based PCI card and will test it. Thanks, Jian -----Original Message----- From: Jeff Garzik [mailto:jgpobox@xxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jeff Garzik Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2011 4:51 PM To: Jian Peng Cc: Tejun Heo; Robert Hancock; linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; ide Subject: Re: questions regarding possible violation of AHCI spec in AHCI driver On 01/11/2011 01:55 PM, Jian Peng wrote: > Here is new patch based on your suggestion (against 2.6.37 release) [...] > I will test host controller made by other vendors and report issues soon. Any updates? Jeff -- 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