Dear Soeren, RELENG_6_2 on TYAN Tomcat K8E (S2865) motherboard with onboard NVidia SATA controller: atapci1: <nVidia nForce CK804 SATA300 controller> port 0x9f0-0x9f7,0xbf0-0xbf3,0x970-0x977,0xb70-0xb73,0xd400-0xd40f mem 0xfebfc000-0xfebfcfff irq 23 at device 7.0 on pci0 atapci1: Reserved 0x10 bytes for rid 0x20 type 4 at 0xd400 atapci1: [MPSAFE] atapci1: Reserved 0x1000 bytes for rid 0x24 type 3 at 0xfebfc000 ata2: <ATA channel 0> on atapci1 atapci1: Reserved 0x8 bytes for rid 0x10 type 4 at 0x9f0 atapci1: Reserved 0x4 bytes for rid 0x14 type 4 at 0xbf0 ata2: SATA connect ready time=0ms ata2: sata_connect devices=0x1<ATA_MASTER> ata2: [MPSAFE] ata3: <ATA channel 1> on atapci1 atapci1: Reserved 0x8 bytes for rid 0x18 type 4 at 0x970 atapci1: Reserved 0x4 bytes for rid 0x1c type 4 at 0xb70 ata3: SATA connect ready time=0ms ata3: sata_connect devices=0x1<ATA_MASTER> ata3: [MPSAFE] ata4: <ATA channel 0> on atapci2 ata4: SATA connect ready time=0ms ata4: sata_connect devices=0x1<ATA_MASTER> ata4: [MPSAFE] ata5: <ATA channel 1> on atapci2 ata5: SATA connect ready time=0ms ata5: sata_connect devices=0x1<ATA_MASTER> ata5: [MPSAFE] ata2-master: pio=PIO4 wdma=WDMA2 udma=UDMA133 cable=40 wire ad4: 476940MB <Seagate ST3500641AS 3.AAE> at ata2-master SATA300 ata3-master: pio=PIO4 wdma=WDMA2 udma=UDMA133 cable=40 wire ad6: 476940MB <Seagate ST3500641AS 3.AAE> at ata3-master SATA300 ata4-master: pio=PIO4 wdma=WDMA2 udma=UDMA133 cable=40 wire ad8: 476940MB <Seagate ST3500630AS 3.AAE> at ata4-master SATA300 ata5-master: pio=PIO4 wdma=WDMA2 udma=UDMA133 cable=40 wire ad10: 476940MB <Seagate ST3500630AS 3.AAE> at ata5-master SATA300 When connecting/dictonnecting SATA drive (I tried ad8 and ad10) on the fly I've got Jan 4 22:30:41 <kern.crit> ogre kernel: ata5: CONNECTED Jan 4 22:30:41 <kern.crit> ogre kernel: ata5: SATA connect ready time=10000ms Jan 4 22:30:41 <kern.crit> ogre kernel: ata5: sata_connect devices=0x0 Jan 4 22:31:13 <kern.crit> ogre kernel: ata5: SATA connect ready time=10000ms Jan 4 22:31:13 <kern.crit> ogre kernel: ata5: sata_connect devices=0x0 Jan 4 22:31:13 <kern.crit> ogre kernel: ata5: [MPSAFE] Jan 4 22:31:30 <kern.crit> ogre kernel: ad8: detached Jan 4 22:32:02 <kern.crit> ogre kernel: ata4: SATA connect ready time=10000ms Jan 4 22:32:02 <kern.crit> ogre kernel: ata4: sata_connect devices=0x0 Jan 4 22:32:02 <kern.crit> ogre kernel: ata4: [MPSAFE] and the drive(s) is not detected. atacontrol detach/attach or atacontrol reinit does not help either. When booting with the drive connected everything's detected fine. Is it normal? Sincerely, D.Marck [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *** Dmitry Morozovsky --- D.Marck --- Wild Woozle --- marck@rinet.ru *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------