On Fri, 2002-08-09 at 03:47, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 12:38:12PM +0200, Stefano Miglia wrote: > > Thanks for the answer but using Kernel V 2.4.19 it seems not seeing the card > > (the chip would be PDC20271 and not 20276, I think). > > make sure to enable the FORCE config option The real question is does the kernel not see the device at all. I see this in 2.4.19 on some of the newer PDC chipset. (The intel cw2 aka clearwater for example) The ac kernel recognizes the newer chipsets and attempts to use them. Or does the ide driver see the chipset, but not see the drives. In which case it's just the pdc force option.