B2 esata not working (with Freecom Quattro 2TB)

[nerochiaro]

Hello everyone,
I bought a Freecom Quattro 2TB external drive and I wanted to connect it to my B2 via esata.
So I just plugged it in and with the esata cable and was expecting it to show up as available to mount, but nothing appeared.
I ssh'd into the B2 and I saw this on dmesg:

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ata3: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x50000 action 0xe frozen
ata3: SError: { PHYRdyChg CommWake }
ata3: hard resetting link
ata3: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 310)
ata3.00: NODEV after polling detection
ata3: EH complete
ata3: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x90000 action 0xe frozen
ata3: SError: { PHYRdyChg 10B8B }
ata3: hard resetting link
ata3: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 310)
ata3: EH complete
ata3: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x50000 action 0xe frozen
ata3: SError: { PHYRdyChg CommWake }
ata3: hard resetting link
ata3: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 310)
ata3.00: ATA-8: SAMSUNG HD204UI, 1AQ10001, max UDMA/133
ata3.00: 3907029168 sectors, multi 0: LBA48 
ata3.00: NODEV after polling detection
ata3.00: revalidation failed (errno=-2)
ata3: hard resetting link
ata3: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 310)
ata3.00: NODEV after polling detection
ata3.00: revalidation failed (errno=-2)
ata3: hard resetting link
ata3: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=-19)
ata3: COMRESET failed (errno=-16)
ata3: hard resetting link
ata3: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=-19)
ata3: COMRESET failed (errno=-16)
ata3: hard resetting link
ata3: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=-19)
ata3: COMRESET failed (errno=-16)
ata3: hard resetting link
ata3: COMRESET failed (errno=-16)
ata3: reset failed, giving up
ata3.00: disabled
ata3: hard resetting link
ata3: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=-19)
ata3: COMRESET failed (errno=-16)
ata3: hard resetting link
ata3: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=-19)
ata3: COMRESET failed (errno=-16)
ata3: hard resetting link
ata3: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=-19)
ata3: COMRESET failed (errno=-16)
ata3: hard resetting link
ata3: COMRESET failed (errno=-16)
ata3: reset failed, giving up
ata3: EH complete

It doesn't look very good.
The same disk has also USB connectors and if I connect the disk via USB the B2 sees it allright.
It seems that the B2 and the disk can't talk to each other over esata for some reason.

Is that something I can do about this ?
Or perhaps the fine people at Excito can do something about this ?
Or do I have to just suck it up and use the disk via USB only ?

Thanks,
--
nero

[Ubi]

this could be completely stupid, but what happens when you stick the drive into the other esata port on the B2?

[nerochiaro]

Same problem (with ata4 on the dmesg message instead)