> > A hard(ware) lockup, not software. > > That's why Intel says ICH5 doesn't do hotplug. > > OIC. I don't think there's much left to do from the driver side then. > Or is there any workaround? I'm not familiar with the ICH5 SATA side but on the PATA side we also need to run code to fix up chips on a hotplug (and *before* the plug in some cases) - eg the ICH2 requires we turn off IORDY. - 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