On 11/26/2010 10:55 PM, Tejun Heo wrote: > You gotta tell EH that the device needs rescanning. When you detect a > hotplug event, call ata_ehi_hotplugged() followed by > ata_port_freeze(). Tejun, Do you want to say, we need to call above routines for both hotplugging events: card insert and remove?? Actually i am getting following messages on insert: ata1: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0xe frozen ata1: soft resetting link ata1.00: CFA: TRANSCEND, 20091215, max UDMA/66 ata1.00: 62537328 sectors, multi 0: LBA ata1.00: configured for PIO6 ata1.00: configured for PIO6 ata1: EH complete scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA TRANSCEND 2009 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 62537328 512-byte logical blocks: (32.0 GB/29.8 GiB) sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: disabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA sda: sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0 sda1 sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk and following messages on card remove: ata1: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0xe frozen ata1: soft resetting link ata1.00: revalidation failed (errno=-2) ata1: soft resetting link ata1.00: revalidation failed (errno=-2) ata1: soft resetting link ata1.00: revalidation failed (errno=-2) ata1.00: disabled ata1: soft resetting link ata1: EH complete ata1.00: detaching (SCSI 0:0:0:0) sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Stopping disk sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] START_STOP FAILED sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Result: hostbyte=0x04 driverbyte=0x00 For me, card insertion messages are fine, but I am not sure if card removal messages are fine?? -- viresh -- 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