> I was hoping that the latest release of the kernel (2.6.19-1.2985) would > detect the ide components without using the "all-generic-ide" & "irqpoll" > options, but alas, no - is this something for bugzilla? Depends what the chip in question is for the all-generic-ide bit, for the irqpoll part its almost certainly between you and your BIOS vendor and nothing to do with the irq code.