Hello, 2.6.17.13 works OK on this VIA Epia SP8000. (remember vaguely about some (PCI?) fixups to get things going) Now I try to get 2.6.18.1 working. SATA is detected by this kernel but disk gives timeout while 2.6.17.13 boots fine. Some blurbs: Links is up but SStatus 113 SControl 300 qc timeout (cmd 0xec) failed to IDENTIFY This results in a kernel panic. Any ideas? 2.6.17.13 gives stuff like this: scsi0 : sata_via ata2: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113) ata2: dev 0 cfg 49:2f00 82:746b 83:7f01 84:4023 85:7469 86:3c01 87:4023 88:40ff ata2: dev 0 ATA-7, max UDMA7, 312581808 sectors: LBA48 ata2: dev 0 configured for UDMA/133 scsi1 : sata_via Vendor: ATA Model: SAMSUNG HD160JJ Rev: ZM10 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05 SCSI device sda: 312581808 512-byte hdwr sectors (160042 MB) sda: Write Protect is off sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back SCSI device sda: 312581808 512-byte hdwr sectors (160042 MB) sda: Write Protect is off sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back sda: sda1 sda2 < sda5 sda6 sda7 sda8 sda9 sda10 > sd 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sda Udo PS: Sorry for sending this also to linux-kernel - To unsubscribe from this list: 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