From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tejun Heo Subject: Re: Port Multiplier drives not always all found on cold plug Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2008 10:47:32 +0900 Message-ID: <484C8BB4.7050303@gmail.com> References: <482DB79F.2030204@rtr.ca> <482DBA62.4020209@rtr.ca> <482DBC5C.3020904@rtr.ca> <482DC41F.9080901@rtr.ca> <482DCD1F.4090503@rtr.ca> <482EE9E1.5000805@gmail.com> <482F16AB.1040003@rtr.ca> <482F1B5C.2000006@gmail.com> <482F2F1C.9030102@rtr.ca> <482FBD41.7020604@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from wf-out-1314.google.com ([209.85.200.174]:42640 "EHLO wf-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755121AbYFIBri (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Jun 2008 21:47:38 -0400 Received: by wf-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 27so1890471wfd.4 for ; Sun, 08 Jun 2008 18:47:37 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: JR Wilbert Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org JR Wilbert wrote: > Forgive me if I am posting off topic or in the wrong place. > > I am also experiencing the same problem but with sata_sil24 running Fedora Core > 9 with kernel 2.6.25.3-18.fc9.i686. And I think you are right about it not > being contained with sata_mv > > On cold boot with all drives in the array the system fails to see any drives. If > I boot without the drives I can connect them , up to 3 drives. > > > If do rmmod sata_sil24 && modprobe sata_sil24 with 3 out of 4 drives connected. > And it takes some time to load sata_sil24 > > If I am wrong for posting here please let me know. If I can help in anyway also > let me know. Can you please try the following git tree? http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/tj/libata-dev.git;a=shortlog;h=improve-timeout -- tejun