Hi... I've been out for more than a week. Just went to try -rc2-mm1 and it ate one ide channel... This was -rc1-mm2: libata version 2.00 loaded. ata_piix 0000:00:1f.1: version 2.00ac6 ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.1[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 16 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.1 to 64 ata1: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x1F0 ctl 0x3F6 bmdma 0xF000 irq 14 scsi0 : ata_piix ata1.00: ATAPI, max UDMA/33 ata1.01: ATAPI, max MWDMA0, CDB intr ata1.00: configured for PIO3 ata1.01: configured for PIO3 Vendor: HL-DT-ST Model: DVDRAM GSA-4120B Rev: A111 Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 05 Vendor: IOMEGA Model: ZIP 250 Rev: 51.G Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05 ata2: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x170 ctl 0x376 bmdma 0xF008 irq 15 scsi1 : ata_piix ata2.00: ATA-6, max UDMA/100, 234441648 sectors: LBA48 ata2.00: ata2: dev 0 multi count 16 ata2.01: ATAPI, max UDMA/33 ata2.00: configured for UDMA/33 ata2.01: configured for UDMA/33 Vendor: ATA Model: ST3120022A Rev: 3.06 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05 Vendor: TOSHIBA Model: DVD-ROM SD-M1712 Rev: 1004 Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 05 ata_piix 0000:00:1f.2: MAP [ P0 -- P1 -- ] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.2[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 16 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.2 to 64 ata3: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xC000 ctl 0xC402 bmdma 0xD000 irq 16 ata4: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xC800 ctl 0xCC02 bmdma 0xD008 irq 16 This is -rc2-mm1, a PATA channel is missing... libata version 2.00 loaded. ata_piix 0000:00:1f.1: version 2.00ac6 ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.1[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 16 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.1 to 64 ata1: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x1F0 ctl 0x3F6 bmdma 0xF000 irq 14 scsi0 : ata_piix ata1.00: ATAPI, max UDMA/33 ata1.01: ATAPI, max MWDMA0, CDB intr ata1.00: configured for UDMA/33 ata1.01: configured for PIO3 Vendor: HL-DT-ST Model: DVDRAM GSA-4120B Rev: A111 Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 05 Vendor: IOMEGA Model: ZIP 250 Rev: 51.G Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05 ata_piix 0000:00:1f.2: MAP [ P0 -- P1 -- ] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.2[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 16 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.2 to 64 ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xC000 ctl 0xC402 bmdma 0xD000 irq 16 ata3: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xC800 ctl 0xCC02 bmdma 0xD008 irq 16 Any idea ? Any more info needed ? TIA -- J.A. Magallon <jamagallon()ono!com> \ Software is like sex: \ It's better when it's free Mandriva Linux release 2007.0 (Cooker) for i586 Linux 2.6.17-jam04 (gcc 4.1.1 20060518 (prerelease)) #2 SMP PREEMPT Mon - : 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