External eSATA drive not recognized on 2nd power up

James Wilkinson fedora at aprilcottage.co.uk
Fri Mar 30 19:30:53 UTC 2012


Patrick Lists wrote:
> I have an up-to-date F16 x86_64 box with 2 eSATA ports on the back
> powered by a JMicron JMB362 chip. When I attach an external SATA
> drive to the eSATA port and power up the drive it is recognized
> fine. But when I power down that drive, wait 2 minutes, and power it
> up again the drive is no longer recognized. Also there are no
> messages related to the 2nd power up in /var/log/messages. All SATA
> controllers are set to AHCI in the BIOS. No idea where to go from
> here. Anyone have any suggestions how I can fix this?

Does it work with older (pre 3.3) kernels? It might have something to do
with http://lkml.org/lkml/2012/3/4/152

Hope this helps,

James.

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