Hello list, >just a quick note to tell you that with ATA_ENABLE_PATA my >system works fine and does even survive suspend-to-ram. >This is a Samsung P35 laptop with one builtin 80 GB harddisk >and one builtin DVD-RAM drive. >libata patches are the ones included in 2.6.17-rc1-mm2 with >an additional one-liner: > >ata1: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x1F0 ctl 0x3F6 bmdma 0x1860 irq 14 >ata1: dev 0 cfg 49:2f00 82:346b 83:7f01 84:6003 85:3c69 86:3f01 87:6003 88:203f >ata1: dev 0 ATA-7, max UDMA/100, 156368016 sectors: LBA48 >ata1: dev 0 configured for UDMA/100 >scsi0 : ata_piix > Vendor: ATA Model: SAMSUNG MP0804H Rev: UE10 > Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05 >SCSI device sda: 156368016 512-byte hdwr sectors (80060 MB) [...] So libata has the overhead of using SCSI commands? At least that's what it suggests to the normal user. Jan - : 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