On Tuesday 16 March 2010 01:12:42 pm Ben Gamari wrote: > On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 09:06:11 -0700, Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@xxxxxx> wrote: > > Would it be possible for you to boot a current kernel (2.6.34-rc1) on > > both boxes with the card in place and collect the dmesg logs and "lspci -vv" > > output? New kernels have a lot more output to make debugging easier. > > > Here are logs. First are the broken machine, then the working machine (the > eSATA controller is the last device in the working machine's lspci output). > Inspiron (broken) dmesg > [ 2.064124] pciehp 0000:00:1c.3:pcie04: Slot Status : 0x0000 > [ 2.064128] pciehp 0000:00:1c.3:pcie04: Slot Control : 0x0008 I think this says the PCIe hotplug controller thinks the slot is empty. Since there really is a card there, I don't know why this would happen unless the slot is physically broken somehow. I copied Kenji-san, since he knows a lot more about PCIe hotplug than I do. Bjorn -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-pci" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html