The card is an Adaptec SlimSCSI 1460D Fast SCSI card. I frequently get this panic when re-inserting the card: Jun 13 17:53:29 siafu kernel: [4364313.475000] pccard: PCMCIA card inserted into slot 0 Jun 13 17:53:29 siafu kernel: [4364313.475000] pcmcia: registering new device pcmcia0.0 Jun 13 17:53:30 siafu kernel: [4364313.526000] aha152x: resetting bus... Jun 13 17:53:30 siafu kernel: [4364313.882000] aha152x2: vital data: rev=1, io=0xd340 (0xd340/0xd340), irq=3, scsiid=7, reconnect=enabled, parity=enabled, synchronous=enabled, delay=100, extended translation=disabled Jun 13 17:53:30 siafu kernel: [4364313.882000] aha152x2: trying software interrupt, ok. Jun 13 17:53:30 siafu kernel: [4364314.883000] scsi2 : Adaptec 152x SCSI driver; $Revision: 2.7 $ Jun 13 17:53:30 siafu kernel: [4364314.895000] Jun 13 17:53:30 siafu kernel: [4364314.895000] aha152x0: bottom-half already running!? Jun 13 17:53:30 siafu kernel: [4364314.895000] Jun 13 17:53:30 siafu kernel: [4364314.895000] queue status: Jun 13 17:53:30 siafu kernel: [4364314.895000] issue_SC: Jun 13 17:53:30 siafu kernel: [4364314.895000] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000066 Jun 13 17:53:30 siafu kernel: [4364314.895000] printing eip: Jun 13 17:53:30 siafu kernel: [4364314.895000] e0a71e0c Jun 13 17:53:30 siafu kernel: [4364314.895000] *pde = 00000000 Jun 13 17:53:30 siafu kernel: [4364314.895000] Oops: 0000 [#1] Jun 13 17:53:30 siafu kernel: [4364314.895000] Modules linked in: ide_cd cdrom radeon drm rate_control bcm43xx_d80211 80211 aha152x_cs scsi_transport_spi snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss ohci_hcd intel_agp usbhid uhci_hcd generic snd_intel8x0 snd_ac97_codec snd_ac97_bus snd_pcm snd_timer snd soundcore snd_page_alloc 8250_pci 8250 serial_core tg3 yenta_socket rsrc_nonstatic pcmcia firmware_class crc32 pcmcia_core nls_iso8859_1 ntfs usbkbd usbmouse agpgart usb_storage sd_mod scsi_mod ehci_hcd Jun 13 17:53:30 siafu kernel: [4364314.895000] CPU: 0 Jun 13 17:53:30 siafu kernel: [4364314.895000] EIP: 0060:[<e0a71e0c>] Not tainted VLI Jun 13 17:53:30 siafu kernel: [4364314.895000] EFLAGS: 00010086 (2.6.17-rc5debug-g3cdcc4d0-dirty #1) Jun 13 17:53:30 siafu kernel: [4364314.895000] EIP is at show_command+0xc/0x1a0 [aha152x_cs] Jun 13 17:53:30 siafu kernel: [4364314.895000] eax: 00000055 ebx: 00000062 ecx: 00000000 edx: 00000000 Jun 13 17:53:30 siafu kernel: [4364314.895000] esi: dc412000 edi: 00000296 ebp: 00000000 esp: dff07eb4 Jun 13 17:53:30 siafu kernel: [4364314.895000] ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068 Jun 13 17:53:30 siafu kernel: [4364314.895000] Process events/0 (pid: 4, threadinfo=dff06000 task=dff63a50) Jun 13 17:53:30 siafu kernel: [4364314.895000] Stack: 00000296 00000000 c011a947 00000062 00000062 e0a71fd8 00000062 dc412000 Jun 13 17:53:30 siafu kernel: [4364314.895000] dc412000 dffa2700 e0a71c4f dc412000 00000000 e0a73aa7 00000286 e0a71c10 Jun 13 17:53:30 siafu kernel: [4364314.895000] dc412000 e0a73aa7 c0294667 dff07f4c dff63560 00000001 00000296 dffa2700 Jun 13 17:53:30 siafu kernel: [4364314.895000] Call Trace: Jun 13 17:53:30 siafu kernel: [4364314.895000] <c011a947> printk+0x17/0x20 <e0a71fd8> show_queues+0x38/0xc0 [aha152x_cs] Jun 13 17:53:30 siafu kernel: [4364314.895000] <e0a71c4f> aha152x_error+0x2f/0x40 [aha152x_cs] <e0a71c10> is_complete+0x280/0x290 [aha152x_cs] Jun 13 17:53:30 siafu kernel: [4364314.895000] <c0294667> schedule+0x317/0x5d0 <e0a6f619> run+0x19/0x30 [aha152x_cs] Jun 13 17:53:30 siafu kernel: [4364314.895000] <c012926f> run_workqueue+0x6f/0xe0 <e0a6f600> run+0x0/0x30 [aha152x_cs] Jun 13 17:53:30 siafu kernel: [4364314.895000] <c012942b> worker_thread+0x14b/0x170 <c0116b60> default_wake_function+0x0/0x20 Jun 13 17:53:30 siafu kernel: [4364314.895000] <c0116b60> default_wake_function+0x0/0x20 <c01292e0> worker_thread+0x0/0x170 Jun 13 17:53:30 siafu kernel: [4364314.895000] <c012c7ea> kthread+0xba/0xc0 <c012c730> kthread+0x0/0xc0 Jun 13 17:53:30 siafu kernel: [4364314.895000] <c01013bd> kernel_thread_helper+0x5/0x18 Jun 13 17:53:30 siafu kernel: [4364314.895000] Code: 6a df e9 bc fe ff ff c7 04 24 8f 3b a7 e0 e8 3c 8b 6a df e9 a2 fe ff ff 8d b4 26 00 00 00 00 53 83 ec 10 8b 5c 24 18 89 5c 24 0c <8b> 53 04 8d 82 34 01 00 00 89 44 24 08 8b 82 70 01 00 00 ba 09 Jun 13 17:53:30 siafu kernel: [4364314.895000] EIP: [<e0a71e0c>] show_command+0xc/0x1a0 [aha152x_cs] SS:ESP 0068:dff07eb4 Jun 13 17:53:46 siafu kernel: [4364314.895000] <3>(scsi2:0:0) cannot reuse command I always typed "pccardctl eject" before removing the card. Can test patches if necessary. Machine is a Dell Latitude D600 running 2.6.17-rc5 #lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82855PM Processor to I/O Controller (rev 03) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82855PM Processor to AGP Controller (rev 03) 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 01) 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 01) 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 01) 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 01) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 81) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 01) 00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) IDE Controller (rev 01) 00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 01) 00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 01) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R250 Lf [FireGL 9000] (rev 02) 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5705M Gigabit Ethernet (rev 01) 02:01.0 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ711EC1 SmartCardBus Controller (rev 20) 02:01.1 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ711EC1 SmartCardBus Controller (rev 20) 02:03.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4309 802.11a/b/g (rev 03) -Alex I code, therefore I am __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com - : 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