Hello, On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 11:40:50PM -0700, Marc MERLIN wrote: > ata11.15: hard resetting link > ata11.15: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300) > ata11.15: Port Multiplier vendor mismatch '0x1095' != '0x101' > ata11.15: PMP revalidation failed (errno=-19) > ata11.15: hard resetting link > ata11.15: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300) > ata11.15: Port Multiplier vendor mismatch '0x1095' != '0x101' > ata11.15: PMP revalidation failed (errno=-19) > ata11.15: limiting SATA link speed to 1.5 Gbps > ata11.15: hard resetting link > ata11.15: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 310) > ata11.15: Port Multiplier vendor mismatch '0x1095' != '0x101' > ata11.15: PMP revalidation failed (errno=-19) > ata11.15: failed to recover PMP after 5 tries, giving up > ata11.15: Port Multiplier detaching > ata11.00: disabled > ata11.01: disabled > ata11.02: disabled > ata11.03: disabled > ata11.04: disabled > ata11.00: disabled > ata11: hard resetting link > ata11: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300) > ata11.15: Port Multiplier <unknown>, 0x0101:0x9669 r1, 1 ports, feat 0x96690101/0x96690101 Either the controller or port multiplier (more likely the controller) got completely confused. It's basically reporting random garbage for the identification data for the port multiplier. I don't know what went on there but probably the controller needed a strong kick in the butt to come back into sane state. Anyways, there isn't much the port multiplier layer can do if the controller is reporting garbage for data read from PMP. Mark, have you seen anything like this? Could it be that the controller goes out of proper configuration after certain condition and needs to be reset/reconfigured? 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