SiI 3512 Serial ATA Controller - kernel 2.6.23

[Dan Nica]

hello

I have a problem with a serial ata controller
that uses a SiI 3512 chip.

when I'm trying to add a device thats on the 3512 controller 
to the array that I have, it give me lots of errors in dmesg
like this:

ata3.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x2400000 action 0x0
ata3.00: BMDMA2 stat 0x8652001
ata3.00: cmd 35/00:80:3f:5c:03/00:02:00:00:00/e0 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 327680 
out
         res 51/04:80:3f:5e:03/00:00:00:00:00/e0 Emask 0x1 (device error)
ata3.00: configured for UDMA/100
ata3: EH complete
sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] 976773168 512-byte hardware sectors (500108 MB)
sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Write Protect is off
sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't 
support DPO or FUA
ata3.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x2400000 action 0x2 frozen
ata3.00: cmd 35/00:80:bf:75:03/00:02:00:00:00/e0 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 327680 
out
         res 40/00:80:3f:5e:03/00:00:00:00:00/e0 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
ata3: port is slow to respond, please be patient (Status 0xd1)
ata3: device not ready (errno=-16), forcing hardreset
ata3: hard resetting port
ata3: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 310)
ata3.00: configured for UDMA/100
...........

is this a bug, is there a patch, or a workaround ? 
I desperately need to grow the array (which is a raid5) with 
the new harddrives :(

10x for help
--
Dan
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