Hello, I'm using pata_ali with ULi M1697, which has this: 00:16.0 IDE interface [0101]: ALi Corporation M5229 IDE [10b9:5229] (rev c7) IDE works with either pata_ali or alim15x3, but pata_ali complains at boot like this: ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 ata2.00: (BMDMA stat 0x24) ata2.00: cmd c8/00:58:30:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/e0 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 45056 in res 51/84:00:87:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/e0 Emask 0x10 (ATA bus error) ata2: soft resetting port ata2.00: configured for UDMA/100 ata2: EH complete This is repeated a few times, only with different UDMA levels. Is this normal? Or at least not dangerous ... I'm running libata-dev git tree as of tuesday plus a patch to libata-core.c:ata_exec_internal from Tejun Heo, without which it just oopses. ata2 port has only one drive: ata2: PATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x170 ctl 0x376 bmdma 0xFF08 irq 15 ata2.00: ATA-6, max UDMA/100, 390721968 sectors: LBA48 ata2.00: ata2: dev 0 multi count 16 (Please copy responses, I'm not on the list.) Taneli - 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