hi all, Whilst I am aware that with AHCI and SATAII I can just unplug a HDD at will what is the correct process for doing a 'clean' dismount ? Since MD is a layer over the top of the physical device how can you ensure with certainty that all data has been flushed and the device removal is clean ? The advice I was given was that if I unmount the filesystem it'll be fine, but I don't like the messages I get in dmesg: ata5: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x4090000 action 0xe frozen ata5: irq_stat 0x00400040, connection status changed ata5: SError: { PHYRdyChg 10B8B DevExch } ata5: hard resetting link ata5: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300) ata5: hard resetting link ata5: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300) ata5: limiting SATA link speed to 1.5 Gbps ata5: hard resetting link ata5: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 310) ata5.00: disabled ata5: EH complete ata5.00: detaching (SCSI 5:0:0:0) scst: Detached from scsi5, channel 0, id 0, lun 0, type 0 sd 5:0:0:0: [sdd] Synchronizing SCSI cache sd 5:0:0:0: [sdd] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK sd 5:0:0:0: [sdd] Stopping disk sd 5:0:0:0: [sdd] START_STOP FAILED sd 5:0:0:0: [sdd] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK do I need to do: echo 1 > /sys/block/sdd/device/delete or follow: http://tldp.org/HOWTO/archived/SCSI-Programming-HOWTO/SCSI-Programming-HOWTO-4.html (Dynamically insert and remove SCSI devices) or something else completely ? (or just put up with it ?) Some advice would be appreciated. regards Simon -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html