SATA Hotplug fails

[john wendel]

I've got a WD external drive with an e-sata connection. Works fine if I 
boot with it connected/powered.

If I hot plug it, I see the following in the messages log

Jun 18 21:09:35 godzilla2 kernel: ata1: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 
SErr 0x4050000 action 0xe frozen
Jun 18 21:09:35 godzilla2 kernel: ata1: irq_stat 0x00400040, connection 
status changed
Jun 18 21:09:35 godzilla2 kernel: ata1: SError: { PHYRdyChg CommWake 
DevExch }
Jun 18 21:09:35 godzilla2 kernel: ata1: hard resetting link
Jun 18 21:09:41 godzilla2 kernel: ata1: link is slow to respond, please 
be patient (ready=0)
Jun 18 21:09:45 godzilla2 kernel: ata1: COMRESET failed (errno=-16)
Jun 18 21:09:45 godzilla2 kernel: ata1: hard resetting link
Jun 18 21:09:46 godzilla2 kernel: ata1: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 
123 SControl 300)
Jun 18 21:09:46 godzilla2 kernel: ata1.00: applying link speed limit 
horkage to 1.5 Gbps
Jun 18 21:09:51 godzilla2 kernel: ata1: hard resetting link
Jun 18 21:09:51 godzilla2 kernel: ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 
113 SControl 310)
Jun 18 21:09:52 godzilla2 kernel: ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133
Jun 18 21:09:52 godzilla2 kernel: ata1: EH complete

I don't get a device created in /dev.

I'm running the lastest F11 32 bit

Linux godzilla2 2.6.29.4-167.fc11.i586 #1 SMP Wed May 27 17:14:37 EDT 
2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

Any words of wisdom (other than "don't do that") ?

Thanks,

John