SATA Hotplug fails

[Ed Greshko]

john wendel wrote:
>
> I've got a WD external drive with an e-sata connection. Works fine if
> I boot with it connected/powered.
>
> If I hot plug it, I see the following in the messages log
>
> Jun 18 21:09:35 godzilla2 kernel: ata1: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0
> SErr 0x4050000 action 0xe frozen
> Jun 18 21:09:35 godzilla2 kernel: ata1: irq_stat 0x00400040,
> connection status changed
> Jun 18 21:09:35 godzilla2 kernel: ata1: SError: { PHYRdyChg CommWake
> DevExch }
> Jun 18 21:09:35 godzilla2 kernel: ata1: hard resetting link
> Jun 18 21:09:41 godzilla2 kernel: ata1: link is slow to respond,
> please be patient (ready=0)
> Jun 18 21:09:45 godzilla2 kernel: ata1: COMRESET failed (errno=-16)
> Jun 18 21:09:45 godzilla2 kernel: ata1: hard resetting link
> Jun 18 21:09:46 godzilla2 kernel: ata1: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus
> 123 SControl 300)
> Jun 18 21:09:46 godzilla2 kernel: ata1.00: applying link speed limit
> horkage to 1.5 Gbps
> Jun 18 21:09:51 godzilla2 kernel: ata1: hard resetting link
> Jun 18 21:09:51 godzilla2 kernel: ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus
> 113 SControl 310)
> Jun 18 21:09:52 godzilla2 kernel: ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133
> Jun 18 21:09:52 godzilla2 kernel: ata1: EH complete
>
> I don't get a device created in /dev.
>
> I'm running the lastest F11 32 bit
>
> Linux godzilla2 2.6.29.4-167.fc11.i586 #1 SMP Wed May 27 17:14:37 EDT
> 2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
>
> Any words of wisdom (other than "don't do that") ?
>
>
Well....

I suppose the first thing I would do if I were in the situation was be
to look in /var/log/dmesg (don't have F11 so don't know if that still
exists) to see what entries are there when it works....


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