I have a esata (external) disk drive, which I keep permanently connected to a sata pcmcia port (using a esata-sata cable). The pcmcia controller's chipset as reported by lspci is:
02:00.0 Mass storage controller: Silicon Image, Inc. SiI 3112 [SATALink/SATARaid] Serial ATA Controller (rev 02) and I have built a custom kernel: laptop ~ # grep -i sil /usr/src/linux/.config CONFIG_SATA_SIL=y # CONFIG_SATA_SIL24 is not set CONFIG_PATA_SIL680=m # CONFIG_FB_ASILIANT is not set laptop ~ # Modules loaded are: laptop ~ # lsmod Module Size Used by af_packet 11272 2 snd_pcm_oss 33952 0 snd_mixer_oss 12640 1 snd_pcm_oss snd_seq_oss 24768 0 snd_seq_midi_event 5184 1 snd_seq_oss snd_seq 37424 4 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq_device 5804 2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq tun 7296 0 backlight 4032 0 lcd 3680 0 nfsd 75240 13 exportfs 3840 1 nfsd lockd 52904 2 nfsd sunrpc 131100 8 nfsd,lockd usbhid 14196 0 snd_maestro3 18852 1 snd_ac97_codec 88420 1 snd_maestro3 ac97_bus 1792 1 snd_ac97_codec snd_pcm 57288 3 snd_pcm_oss,snd_maestro3,snd_ac97_codec snd_timer 15332 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm snd_page_alloc 7080 1 snd_pcm parport_pc 20036 0 parport 18304 1 parport_pc floppy 46404 0 i2c_piix4 6860 0 i2c_core 17808 1 i2c_piix4 uhci_hcd 18412 0 usbcore 98872 3 usbhid,uhci_hcd rtc 8504 0 intel_agp 19764 1 agpgart 24112 1 intel_agp unix 18416 813 laptop ~ # The problem: The plug on the pcmcia card seems very sensitive, cause if I try to touch / slightly move the plug, dmesg gives: ata4: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x90000 action 0x2 frozen ata4: hard resetting port ata4: port is slow to respond, please be patient (Status 0xff) ata4: COMRESET failed (errno=-16) ata4: hard resetting port ata4: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 310) ata4.00: configured for UDMA/66 ata4: EH pending after completion, repeating EH (cnt=4) ata4: EH complete sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] 586072368 512-byte hardware sectors (300069 MB) sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA Question: Is there a command to reset the port to UDMA/100 ? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
