Lukasz, I recently dug up your promise sata hotplug patches and have been successfully using them with a SATA300 TX4 card (I had to modify the patch to identify this card as hotplug capable, but it's all the same as the SATAII150). I also had to make very minor changes to get the patches to apply to 2.6.16-rc6, but they work great - so I was wondering what the situation was with respect to getting them merged in? --phil - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html