Do you know whether the kernel in etch supports device hotplug (i.e. "yank the drive") for SATA? http://linux-ata.org/software-status.html#hotplug talks about pre-2.6.19 kernels... -- Marcin Owsiany <porridge@debian.org> http://marcin.owsiany.pl/ GnuPG: 1024D/60F41216 FE67 DA2D 0ACA FC5E 3F75 D6F6 3A0D 8AA0 60F4 1216