On a second cold boot with kernel 3.13.11-03131105-generic three drives were detected: $ lsscsi [4:0:0:0] disk ATA OCZ-VERTEX 1.3 /dev/sda [5:0:0:0] disk ATA Hitachi HDS5C302 MZ4O /dev/sdb [7:0:0:0] disk ATA Hitachi HDS5C302 MZ4O /dev/sdc [9:0:0:0] disk ATA Hitachi HDS5C302 MZ4O /dev/sdd [12:0:0:0] process Marvell 91xx Config 1.01 - Dmesg: ... [ 5.546642] ata11: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300) [ 8.611661] ata8.00: qc timeout (cmd 0xef) [ 8.646489] ata9.00: qc timeout (cmd 0xef) [ 8.681338] ata8.00: failed to IDENTIFY (SPINUP failed, err_mask=0x4) [ 8.716343] ata9.00: failed to IDENTIFY (SPINUP failed, err_mask=0x4) [ 8.751376] ata10.00: qc timeout (cmd 0xef) [ 8.786624] ata6.00: qc timeout (cmd 0xef) [ 8.822125] ata10.00: failed to IDENTIFY (SPINUP failed, err_mask=0x4) [ 8.857834] ata6.00: failed to IDENTIFY (SPINUP failed, err_mask=0x4) [ 9.838479] ata9: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300) [ 9.894417] ata8: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300) [ 10.573746] ata11.00: qc timeout (cmd 0xec) [ 10.617705] ata11.00: failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error, err_mask=0x4) [ 10.654255] ata11: hard resetting link [ 10.801539] ata10: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300) [ 12.907481] ata6: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300) [ 12.944295] ata11: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300) [ 22.933705] ata10.00: qc timeout (cmd 0xef) [ 22.970176] ata9.00: qc timeout (cmd 0xef) [ 23.006138] ata10.00: failed to read native max address (err_mask=0x40) [ 23.042392] ata10.00: HPA support seems broken, skipping HPA handling [ 23.078709] ata10: limiting SATA link speed to 1.5 Gbps [ 23.114898] ata9.00: failed to IDENTIFY (SPINUP failed, err_mask=0x4) [ 23.114900] ata9: limiting SATA link speed to 1.5 Gbps [ 23.151305] ata11.00: qc timeout (cmd 0xec) [ 23.151311] ata6.00: qc timeout (cmd 0xef) [ 23.157478] ata6.00: failed to read native max address (err_mask=0x40) [ 23.157479] ata6.00: HPA support seems broken, skipping HPA handling [ 23.157480] ata6: limiting SATA link speed to 1.5 Gbps [ 23.157493] ata11.00: failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error, err_mask=0x4) [ 23.157494] ata11: limiting SATA link speed to 1.5 Gbps [ 23.157495] ata11: hard resetting link [ 25.115578] ata8.00: qc timeout (cmd 0xec) [ 25.155554] ata8.00: failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error, err_mask=0x4) [ 25.191377] ata8: limiting SATA link speed to 1.5 Gbps [ 27.405357] ata9: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 310) [ 27.441319] ata10: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 310) [ 27.477177] ata6: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 310) [ 27.513221] ata11: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 310) [ 27.565200] ata8: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 310) [ 32.544337] ata11.00: qc timeout (cmd 0xef) [ 32.577704] ata9.00: qc timeout (cmd 0x27) [ 32.610128] ata11.00: failed to IDENTIFY (SPINUP failed, err_mask=0x4) [ 32.642010] ata11: hard resetting link [ 32.672790] ata9.00: failed to read native max address (err_mask=0x4) [ 32.672790] ata9.00: HPA support seems broken, skipping HPA handling [ 33.727197] ata9: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 310) [ 34.862691] ata6.00: ATA-8: Hitachi HDS5C3020BLE630, MZ4OAAB0, max UDMA/133 [ 34.893796] ata6.00: 3907029168 sectors, multi 0: LBA48 NCQ (depth 31/32), AA [ 34.924940] ata11: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 310) [ 34.955916] ata10.00: ATA-8: Hitachi HDS5C3020BLE630, MZ4OAAB0, max UDMA/133 [ 34.987135] ata10.00: 3907029168 sectors, multi 0: LBA48 NCQ (depth 31/32), AA [ 35.018602] ata11: EH complete [ 35.049856] ata8.00: ATA-8: Hitachi HDS5C3020BLE630, MZ4OAAB0, max UDMA/133 [ 35.081242] ata8.00: 3907029168 sectors, multi 0: LBA48 NCQ (depth 31/32), AA [ 35.112794] ata6.00: configured for UDMA/133 [ 35.144514] scsi 5:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA Hitachi HDS5C302 MZ4O PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 [ 35.176748] ata10.00: configured for UDMA/133