> Can you please try the attached patch and report the result?  The bug
> shouldn't happen now and for cases where it would have happened,
> libata will report "link online but device misclassified" and retry.

this patch cannot be applied onto stable-2.6.31/master ... e.g. the
first chunk is already in there ....

tim

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