My hardware is: 00:0e.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP55 SATA Controller (rev a2) 00:0e.1 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP55 SATA Controller (rev a2) 00:0e.2 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP55 SATA Controller (rev a2) And hotplug does not work, too. chrisi@mars:~$ lsmod | grep sata sata_sil24 15236 0 sata_nv 20612 2 libata 125168 3 sata_sil24,sata_nv,ata_generic There are no info in dmesg wenn plug or un-plug a drive. On Windows hotplug works. Does anybody knows hot to activate hotplug? thank you! Chris -- 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