From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932326AbWDBLd5 (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Apr 2006 07:33:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932325AbWDBLd5 (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Apr 2006 07:33:57 -0400 Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:30848 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932312AbWDBLd4 (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Apr 2006 07:33:56 -0400 Message-ID: <442FB69F.30000@pobox.com> Date: Sun, 02 Apr 2006 07:33:51 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20060313) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dan Aloni CC: Linux Kernel List , Mark Lord , IDE/ATA development list , Jens Axboe , sander@humilis.net, dror@xiv.co.il Subject: Re: Spradic device disconnections References: <20060401145006.GA6504@localdomain> In-Reply-To: <20060401145006.GA6504@localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -3.7 (---) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 3.1.1 on srv5.dvmed.net summary: Content analysis details: (-3.7 points, 5.0 required) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Dan Aloni wrote: > Mar 31 10:41:12 14.10.240.6 kernel: ata12: no device found (phy stat 00000101) Well, with 0x101, the hardware is telling us "device presence detected, but phy communications not yet established" So, my first instinct would be to look at __mv_phy_reset() code block just above the comment /* work around errata */, and increase the length of the timeout from 200ms to 1-5 seconds. My second instinct would be to increase the number of retries from 5. Jeff