Working much better now...this is what I get when I hot plug a drive that was giving me problems before: [ 211.873069] ata3.01: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x4050000 action 0xf [ 211.873075] ata3.01: SError: { PHYRdyChg CommWake DevExch } [ 211.873181] ata3.01: limiting SATA link speed to 1.5 Gbps [ 211.873188] ata3.01: hard resetting link [ 212.750032] ata3.01: softreset failed (SRST command error) [ 212.850022] ata3.01: failed to read SCR 0 (Emask=0x1) [ 212.850026] ata3.01: reset failed (errno=-85), retrying in 10 secs [ 221.870023] ata3.01: reset failed, giving up [ 221.870029] ata3.15: hard resetting link [ 221.870032] ata3: controller in dubious state, performing PORT_RST [ 224.140057] ata3.15: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 0) [ 224.140364] ata3.02: limiting SATA link speed to 1.5 Gbps [ 224.140402] ata3.03: limiting SATA link speed to 1.5 Gbps [ 224.140440] ata3.04: limiting SATA link speed to 1.5 Gbps [ 224.140477] ata3.05: limiting SATA link speed to 1.5 Gbps [ 224.140481] ata3.00: hard resetting link [ 224.550272] ata3.00: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 320) [ 224.550311] ata3.01: hard resetting link [ 225.020043] ata3.01: softreset failed (SRST command error) [ 225.020069] ata3.01: failed to read SCR 0 (Emask=0x40) [ 225.020073] ata3.01: reset failed (errno=-85), retrying in 10 secs [ 234.550024] ata3.01: reset failed, giving up [ 234.550032] ata3.15: hard resetting link [ 234.550036] ata3: controller in dubious state, performing PORT_RST [ 236.810049] ata3.15: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 0) [ 236.810336] ata3.00: hard resetting link [ 237.230271] ata3.00: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 320) [ 237.230310] ata3.01: hard resetting link [ 237.920270] ata3.01: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300) [ 237.920309] ata3.02: hard resetting link [ 238.270420] ata3.02: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 310) [ 238.270492] ata3.03: hard resetting link [ 238.610434] ata3.03: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 310) [ 238.610504] ata3.04: hard resetting link [ 238.960436] ata3.04: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 310) [ 238.960508] ata3.05: hard resetting link [ 239.310401] ata3.05: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 310) [ 239.413575] ata3.00: configured for UDMA/100 [ 239.420008] ata3.01: ATA-7: SAMSUNG HD154UI, 1AG01118, max UDMA7 [ 239.420012] ata3.01: 2930277168 sectors, multi 0: LBA48 NCQ (depth 31/32) [ 239.426691] ata3.01: configured for UDMA/100 [ 239.426763] ata3: EH complete [ 239.426967] scsi 2:1:0:0: Direct-Access ATA SAMSUNG HD154UI 1AG0 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 [ 239.427123] sd 2:1:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg6 type 0 [ 239.427138] sd 2:1:0:0: [sde] 2930277168 512-byte logical blocks: (1.50 TB/1.36 TiB) [ 239.427182] sd 2:1:0:0: [sde] Write Protect is off [ 239.427185] sd 2:1:0:0: [sde] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 [ 239.427206] sd 2:1:0:0: [sde] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA [ 239.427348] sde: sde1 [ 239.581901] sd 2:1:0:0: [sde] Attached SCSI disk Thank you, Mike -- 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