External eSATA drive not recognized on 2nd power up

[John Austin]

On Sun, 2012-04-08 at 12:34 +0100, John Austin wrote:
> On Sat, 2012-03-31 at 19:09 +0100, James Wilkinson wrote:
> > I asked Patrick:
> > > Does it work with older (pre 3.3) kernels?
> > 
> > Patrick Lists wrote:
> > > I don't have a pre-3.3 kernel as these are kickstart deployments of
> > > F16 + updates.
> > 
> > http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=8 has links to
> > all the recent kernel builds, including the last 3.2 Fedora kernels.
> > 
> > You should be able to just download and install a suitable kernel.
> > 
> > Hope this helps,
> > 
> > James.
> > 
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> 
> 
> Just to say this problem still appears to be present with
> 
> ja at minix ~ 1$ uname -a
> Linux minix 3.3.1-3.fc16.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Apr 4 18:08:51 UTC 2012
> x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> 
> where it is meant to have been cured
> 
> I have added details to
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=806676
> 
> I hope it gets solved soon as I use eSATA hotplug often each day !
> 
> John

Not fixed for me using
ja at minix ~ 1$ uname -a
Linux minix 3.3.1-5.fc16.x86_64

but it looks as if this may be the problem

http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-ide/msg43173.html
(Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2012 09:24:07 +08002012_04_13)

"...
> The fundamental problem with this patch is that all SATA ports are 
> hotpluggable... even the ones the firmware/silicon failed to mark as 
> hotpluggable via AHCI's PORT_CMD_MPSP | PORT_CMD_HPCP

So the acceptable solution is to add runtime pm support for hotpluggable
port.

I'll send new patches.

Thanks,
Lin Ming"


John