On 07/26/2013 07:15 AM, Dave Hansen wrote:

I've got a relatively new system that doesn't seem to be able to hotplug
SATA disks.  I see the same behavior on 3.10, 3.11-rc2, and Ubuntu's
3.8.0-25-generic.  The disks are detected right away on reboots, but
even after poking the /sys/class/scsi_host/host*/scan files, new disks
are never detected.  I've disabled link power management.

Am I doing something stupid here?  I thought this "just worked" on my
previous hardware.

My vague memory reminds me that not all SATA ports are hot pluggable -
you can check the port's "External SATA port" bit and "Hot Plug Capable"
bit of the PxCMD register like this:

$ grep ahci /proc/iomem 
    e1a40000-e1a407ff : ahci
# dd if=/dev/mem of=ahcidump bs=4096 count=1 skip=0xe1a40
You will need to change 0xe1a40 to decimal format.

Then the PxCMD is at offset 0x118 for port 0, check bit 21 for E-SATA or
bit 18 for hot pluggable bits. If any of them set to 1, this port
should be hot pluggable; otherwise, it doesn't have this capability.

The motherboard is an Intel DH87RL. The SATA controller is:

quoted

00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation Lynx Point 6-port SATA Controller 1 [AHCI mode] (rev 04) (prog-if 01 [AHCI 1.0])
	Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device 204a
	Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx+
	Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
	Latency: 0
	Interrupt: pin B routed to IRQ 41
	Region 0: I/O ports at f0d0 [size=8]
	Region 1: I/O ports at f0c0 [size=4]
	Region 2: I/O ports at f0b0 [size=8]
	Region 3: I/O ports at f0a0 [size=4]
	Region 4: I/O ports at f060 [size=32]
	Region 5: Memory at f7d3a000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K]
	Capabilities: [80] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit-
		Address: fee2200c  Data: 4191
	Capabilities: [70] Power Management version 3
		Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot+,D3cold-)
		Status: D0 NoSoftRst+ PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
	Capabilities: [a8] SATA HBA v1.0 BAR4 Offset=00000004
	Kernel driver in use: ahci

Relevant dmesg from boot:

ahci 0000:00:1f.2: version 3.0
ahci 0000:00:1f.2: irq 41 for MSI/MSI-X
ahci 0000:00:1f.2: AHCI 0001.0300 32 slots 5 ports 6 Gbps 0x1e impl SATA
mode
ahci 0000:00:1f.2: flags: 64bit ncq pm led clo pio slum part ems apst

This doesn't have sxs(support external sata) bit here, so no ports from
this host is E-SATA port. Only need to check the hot pluggable bit.

Hope this helps,
-Aaron

ahci 0000:00:1f.2: setting latency timer to 64
scsi0 : ahci
scsi1 : ahci
scsi2 : ahci
scsi3 : ahci
scsi4 : ahci
ata1: DUMMY
ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m2048@0xf7d3a000 port 0xf7d3a180 irq 41
ata3: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m2048@0xf7d3a000 port 0xf7d3a200 irq 41
ata4: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m2048@0xf7d3a000 port 0xf7d3a280 irq 41
ata5: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m2048@0xf7d3a000 port 0xf7d3a300 irq 41