Hi, I get the PATA interface of my Promise PDC40775 (SATA 300 TX2plus) working. But now I run into trouble while connecting a SimpleTech CompactFlash card SLCF512J2U-F (512MB). This are are the messages from log: sata_promise 0000:00:0a.0: version 1.04 ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0a.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 217 sata_promise PATA port found ata9: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xBE9D0200 ctl 0xBE9D0238 bmdma 0x0 irq 217 ata10: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xBE9D0280 ctl 0xBE9D02B8 bmdma 0x0 irq 217 sata_promiseDisabling SATA for third port ata11: PATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xBE9D0300 ctl 0xBE9D0338 bmdma 0x0 irq 217 ata9: SATA link down (SStatus 0) scsi8 : sata_promise ata10: SATA link down (SStatus 0) scsi9 : sata_promise ata11: dev 0 cfg 49:0300 82:7068 83:4004 84:4000 85:7068 86:0004 87:4000 88:0000 ata11: dev 0 ATA-0, max MWDMA2, 1000944 sectors: LBA ata11: dev 0 configured for MWDMA2 scsi10 : sata_promise Vendor: ATA Model: STI Flash 7.3.0 Rev: 06/1 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05 SCSI device sdb: 1000944 512-byte hdwr sectors (512 MB) sdb: Write Protect is off sdb: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 SCSI device sdb: drive cache: write back SCSI device sdb: 1000944 512-byte hdwr sectors (512 MB) sdb: Write Protect is off sdb: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 SCSI device sdb: drive cache: write back sdb:<3>ata11: command timeout ata11: translated ATA stat/err 0xff/00 to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 0xb/47/00 ata11: status=0xff { Busy } sd 10:0:0:0: SCSI error: return code = 0x8000002 sdb: Current: sense key: Aborted Command Additional sense: Scsi parity error Info fld=0xfffffff end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 0 Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 0 ata11: command timeout ata11: translated ATA stat/err 0xff/00 to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 0xb/47/00 ata11: status=0xff { Busy } sd 10:0:0:0: SCSI error: return code = 0x8000002 sdb: Current: sense key: Aborted Command Additional sense: Scsi parity error Info fld=0xfffffff end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 0 Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 0 unable to read partition table sd 10:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sdb How can I identify the real problem for this device ? -- Raphael Bossek -- Bis zu 70% Ihrer Onlinekosten sparen: GMX SmartSurfer! Kostenlos downloaden: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/smartsurfer - : 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