>>>>>> booting the machine today, one hd is missing again ... bootlog attached
>>>>> Hmmm... strange.  I don't really see how it could be escaping.  Can
>>>>> you please apply the attached patch?  It still won't change the
>>>>> behavior but should be able to catch where it's escaping.
>>>> attached you find two bootlogs, for a correct boot, and with one hd
>>>> missing ...
>>> Heh heh, this is getting a bit embarrassing.  Seems like I wasn't
>>> looking at the right path.  Can you please try this one too?  If it
>>> says "XXX D7 pulldown quick exit path" and then succeed to probe,
>>> that's the previous failure case so you don't need to keep trying to
>>> reproduce the problem.
>>
>> i've attached the two boot logs again ...
> 
> Okay, it was another wrong guess.  Can you please try this one?

unfortunately, i haven't been able to get a bootlog of a failure the
issue after rebooting like 20 times with yesterday's linus/master.
once i couldn't boot, since the root hd wasn't found, so i don't think,
the issue is solved, it just doesn't show very frequently ...

the bootlog of a working system is attached, if i experience another
issue, i will send you another bootlog. since i am out of town for a few
days, it may take some time, though ...

tim

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