On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 15:32:35 -0500 Tony Battersby <tonyb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I am having a problem getting Linux to detect hot-plugged SATA disks on my > ICH7 AHCI controller (SuperMicro PDSME motherboard). On any SATA port that > already had a disk plugged in during BIOS POST, Linux will see the disk and > detect hot-plug and hot-unplug events just fine. On any SATA port that did > not have a disk plugged in during BIOS POST, Linux will not see a disk no > matter what. Here are the different sequences of events that I have tried: AHCI has a set of BIOS/Firmware set flags used to indicate which ports are not hot pluggable and the kernel will honour that data and leave such ports powered down. -- 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
