Excerpts from Jan de Groot's message from Wed 23-May-12 09:36: > On di, 2012-05-22 at 16:05 -0600, Sergey Manucharian wrote: > > > The controller is : > > > 00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation N10/ICH7 Family SATA Controller [IDE mode] (rev 01) > > IDE mode isn't supposed to support hotswap. You'll need AHCI or RAID > mode for that. What driver is loaded for your SATA controller? It was working for long time, the driver is "ata_piix": $ lsmod | grep ata pata_acpi 3408 0 ata_generic 3295 0 ata_piix 22296 3 libata 167515 3 pata_acpi,ata_generic,ata_piix scsi_mod 133038 3 sg,libata,sd_mod I've just installed kernel 3.4 from testing - it works perfectly. -- Cheers, Sergey