Hi, > For now, I've added a check if the device is an optical drive, which > should prevent this from happening. good! saving countless bits from beeing eliminated >) It might be better though, if i may add this proposal, to check the availability of ata passthrough, e.g. like in sg_sat_identify. regards cs -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-hotplug" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html