From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tejun Heo Subject: Re: libata question Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2006 00:02:49 +0900 Message-ID: <44D0BE99.8010809@gmail.com> References: <1154445491.18593.111.camel@acme> <44CF7447.300@gmail.com> <1154457583.4665.5.camel@shark.pacific> <44CFA15C.8080109@gmail.com> <1154458981.4665.9.camel@shark.pacific> <44CFA618.2090204@gmail.com> <1154502301.5691.23.camel@acme> <44D0522E.6030905@gmail.com> <1154529340.25611.75.camel@acme> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from wx-out-0102.google.com ([66.249.82.193]:7223 "EHLO wx-out-0102.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751157AbWHBPCh (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Aug 2006 11:02:37 -0400 Received: by wx-out-0102.google.com with SMTP id s14so765048wxc for ; Wed, 02 Aug 2006 08:02:36 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1154529340.25611.75.camel@acme> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Roger Oberholtzer Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Roger Oberholtzer wrote: > Can the removal echo be done after the disk is physically removed? I > expect not as this seems to confuse things. If this is the case, is > there any way to restore sanity without a reboot? It shouldn't require a reboot under any circumstances. Without dmesg and explanation of what you did, I cannot help you much. What do you mean by sanity? What makes you think libata lost sanity? *Please* be more specific. -- tejun