On 05/17/2010 01:32 PM, Prashant wrote: > Hi, > I have a board with backplane for SATA disks. Sometimes when I unplug > a disk while > IO is going on, I get following problem. Has anybody of you > experienced this before? > Sometimes spinlock owner is kblockd, sometimes it is scsi_eh. Sorry but 2.6.24 is way too ancient at this point and too much has changed. Can you please try a recent kernel and see whether the problem is reproducible? Thanks. -- tejun -- 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