reproduce : 1.choose a megaraid sas series raidcard, for example: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic MegaRAID SAS 2008 [Falcon] (rev 03) 2. configure the raid card as HBA card (all disks are jbod mode) We assume /dev/sdb is attached to this raid card 3.run process: fd = open("/dev/sdb", O_RDWR); while (1) { sleep (10); } 4. run "udevadm monitor" watch udev message in a new shell 5.unplug disk sdb and then insert We can see new udev message about disk's hotswap 6.redo process 5 There will be no udev message only if you reboot the server