Just a note for the archives - after chatting with Alex on irc about this issue and trying other cards, the likely suspect seems to be the specific card used and/or the firmware on that card. Hotplug works otherwise, just not with that card at least. -- Jens Axboe -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-pci" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html