RE: NForce3 SATA badness with remove/add devices

[Andrew Chew]

> its my 3 attemp (LKML Post 0410.2/0129l) to get a answer to 
> following thing. First of all I'm using a NForce 3 250GB (MSI 
> K8N Neo2 Platinum) With 3 SATA disks Maxtor  6B200M/NCQ 
> 2xSamsung SP1213C
> 
> My Problem is when the kernel starts with libsata and sata_nv 
> compiled in when I boot the System with libsata and sata_nv 
> it removes the first disk (Maxtor 6B200B) then a abnormal 
> timeout occur while adding the device: this message appears 
> error is "ATA: abnormal status 0x0D on port 0x9E7" and "ata 
> is to slow to answer" now the corious thing on that is if I 
> wait 40 or 50 sec maybe it work or maybe not.. when I'm using 
> the old "CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE_SATA:" everything works great 
> here. I dont know whats wrong but i tested it on 5 Motherboard 
> there the Maxtor working without hicks (VIA 
> KT880Pro,i875P,i925,SIS755,Promise 378 SATA TX2, but when I 
> plug it on a NForce 3 250GB (MSI K8N Neo2 or Gigabyte K8NSNXP 
> or even new MSI K8N Neo2) 
> the same timeout occur..the Maxtor 6B200M is SATA2 but full 
> SATA compatible. 
> I thought it is because of hotplug support but disabling all 
> this stuff did not work. I hope someone know why this happen 
> and how to fix this.

Can you try the workaround suggested in
http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3352?
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