There is a wrong order to initialize the drivers. The IDE-platform driver was initialized before pata_sis. So the generic platform driver is driving the IDE controller instead of pata_sis. kernel 2.6.19 .config # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SIS5513 is not set CONFIG_ATA=y CONFIG_PATA_SIS=y dmesg ... libata version 2.00 loaded. ... Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx Probing IDE interface ide0... hda: SAMSUNG SP1614N, ATA DISK drive Probing IDE interface ide1... ... pata_sis 0000:00:02.5: version 0.4.4 ata: 0x1F0 IDE port busy ata: conflict with ide0 ata: 0x170 IDE port busy ata: conflict with ide1 pata_sis: probe of 0000:00:02.5 failed with error -16 regards Uwe Koziolek - 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
