Brad Campbell wrote:

G'day all,

The archives tell of many tales of woe regarding this chip (which 
matches my experience).

I've added the PCI ID for it into the ahci driver, and provided I only 
use one of the ports it works (tho it's kinda slow). As per everyone 
elses experience, if I try and read from more than one port at one time 
the whole shooting match dies thusly..

Begin with modprobe ahci as it does not seem to support hotplug, so 
rmmod/plug drives/modprobe

[  798.035338] ahci 0000:08:00.0: version 3.0

Is there anyone interested in looking at this? I can leave the board on my bench for as long as it 
may be of use to someone for testing. If it's a lack of documentation or other issue that means 
there is no likelihood of a fix I'll go and install it.

Brad
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