Hello, I have a Promise TX4 controller, and I have problems with hotplug. It seems the controller does not recongnize the drive being hot-removed or hot-plugged. I need either to reload the sata_promise module, or to do # echo 1 > /sys/block/sdN/device/delete to remove the drive, and # echo 0 0 0 > /sys/class/scs_host/hostN/scan to scan for a new drive. Another box with nVidia CK08 (sata_nv) can recognize the removal and insertion of the drive as hotplug events (so udev correctly remove and create the /dev nodes, etc.), so I thought with Promise TX4 it would be the same, especially as http://linux-ata.org/driver-status.html says about TX2/TX4 the following: "Full SATA control including hotplug and PM on all." Is hotplug supported with this controller? Or could this be a problem with the SATA backplane? The controller is (lspci): 06:00.0 Mass storage controller: Promise Technology, Inc. PDC40718 (SATA 300 TX4) (rev 02) The userland is Fedora Core 6 and Fedora 7, x86_64 (intel CPU), and the chassis and SATA backplane is Supermicro 743T-645 (http://www.supermicro.com/products/chassis/4U/743/SC743T-645.cfm). Thanks, -Yenya -- | Jan "Yenya" Kasprzak <kas at {fi.muni.cz - work | yenya.net - private}> | | GPG: ID 1024/D3498839 Fingerprint 0D99A7FB206605D7 8B35FCDE05B18A5E | | http://www.fi.muni.cz/~kas/ Journal: http://www.fi.muni.cz/~kas/blog/ | > I will never go to meetings again because I think face to face meetings < > are the biggest waste of time you can ever have. --Linus Torvalds < - To unsubscribe from this list: 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
