Hi. I don't like to badger open-source developers, but an email from Jeff Garzik (archived at [1]) suggests that it may be worth doing so in my particular situation. [1] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-ide&m=114290600200440&w=2 My situation is this: I recently purchased a PC which contains a VIA VT8251 southbridge. As far as I can see, this is not currently supported by Linux, so it seems that (as I have insufficient knowledge to write the code myself) I have no option but to wait until it is. Therefore, I would like to request that the Linux IDE developers implement support for this chipset. Regards, Ronan. - : 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