Currently, we can use the piix ide driver for Intel ICH5 IDE controllers, or use ata_piix (libata) by #defining ATA_ENABLE_PATA manually at inclulde/linux/libata.h. Why not have a CONFIG option to enable libata for such drivers instead of a #define in the code? I was wondering if there is any reason it is done this way. Thanks, Kiran - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html