Re: [PATCHSET #upstream-fixes] git tree available

[Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>]

Brian & Chamaigne Scamman wrote:
> Tejun Heo wrote:
>> Brian & Chamaigne Scamman wrote:
>>> One remaining issue is the "failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error, err
> mask=0xll)"
>>> message. If the PMP, bridges and drives are powered up before I 
>>> insert the eSATA cable in to the controller, I don't receive the 
>>> message. The message appears when only when I have the eSATA cable 
>>> attached to the controller and then simultaneously power on the PMP 
>>> and drives. In the attached dmesg log, the drive is eventually 
>>> recognized; however there have been a couple of times when the drives 
>>> aren't recognized. An eSATA cable remove/re-insert fixes the problem.
>> Hmm... can you please post the failing log?
> 
> Here's a dmesg log where one of the drives is never recognized, but the
> others eventually are...
> 
> -Brian
> 

Can you please put ssleep(5) right after the first ata_do_reset() call 
in drivers/ata/libata-eh.c::ata_eh_reset() and see whether the problem 
goes away?

Thanks.

-- 
tejun