Hello,

Please verify whether the attached patch fixes all hardreset / probing
related issues.  The patch is on top of v2.6.27-rc8.  Sorry about all
the mess but it was quite a confusing problem.  Here's what went down.

* During 2.6.27-rcX, libata switched to prefer hardreset.

* Which broke, generic flavor of sata_nv.  Some sata_nv's fail to
  bring the link up after hardreset.

* A fix patch went in to disable hardreset for generic flavor.  But it
  accidentaly disabled hardreset for all flavors.

* Which broke nf2/3 and CK804, because their hotplug interrupt bits
  never get cleared.  They're apparently cleared by hardreset
  sequence.

* Another fix patch went in to reinstate nv_hardreset for nf2/3 and
  CK804.

* Which broke nf2/3, which was because nf2/3's hardreset was broken in
  different way.

So, to sum up, each generation of sata_nv controllers exhibits
different hardreset behaviors.

* generic: doesn't work.

* nf2/3: signature D2H Reg FIS delivery doesn't work.

* ck804: works.

So, all three require different treatments to prefer hardreset and any
solution which didn't do that was broken.  The attached patch should
solve all the problems.

It was messy but this at least fixes hardreset for all flavors of nv
controllers, so it will generally improve reliability.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun