On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 07:16:43AM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > libata will immediately notice the ejection without ACPI's help. http://linux.yyz.us/sata/sata-status.html claims that ICH6 doesn't support hotswap. The Intel docs seem to say the same thing. Pulling the drive out generates an ACPI interrupt but not a PCI one. I'm really happy to be wrong here, it's just that everything I've been able to find so far suggests that ACPI is the only way to get a notification that the drive has gone missing :) -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html