Re: PROBLEM: SATA hotplugging not working with nForce MCP61

[Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>]

Tuomas Jormola wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> [1.] One line summary of the problem:
> SATA hotplugging does not seem to work with NVIDIA nForce MCP61.
> 
> [2.] Full description of the problem/report:
> I have a machine with ASRock 939NF6G-VSTA motherboard (more info:
> http://www.asrock.com/mb/overview.asp?Model=939NF6G-VSTA). The SATA
> functionality of the board is enabled by sata_nv driver. However, when I
> tested hot plugging of a SATA hard disk, no hotplugging events were
> generated when I detached the SATA cable from the disk. I tested the same
> disk with an older machine which has MSI Neo Platinium motherboard with
> nForce3 250Gb chipset, also driven by sata_nv driver, and hot plugging
> was ok. Both experiments were done on the same kernel, Ubuntu gutsy
> desktop installer/live CD was used to boot the machines. The attached
> file sata_nv_hotplug_ok.txt is the kernel log of the latter system. At
> around 814 the cable was detached from the drive and by 827 the disk was
> removed from the running configuration. Then at around 871 the cable was
> re-attached, and by 887 the disk was usable again. The file
> sata_nv_hotplug_not_ok.txt contains kernel log of the machine with the
> MCP61 chipset. When the cable is detached, nothing will be printed to the
> log. I hope there is a solution to this problem.

Can you please post the result of 'lspci -nn'?

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tejun