On 2/17/07, Patrick Ale <patrick.ale@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: Something is very off here... i know I have fever and all but this is a "wt*" moment. So, libata doesnt detect any drive, and the old IDE drivers give me PDC20276: chipset revision 1 PDC20276: PLL input clock is 33527 kHz PDC20276: 100% native mode on irq 20 ide4: BM-DMA at 0xcc00-0xcc07, BIOS settings: hdi:pio, hdj:pio ide5: BM-DMA at 0xcc08-0xcc0f, BIOS settings: hdk:pio, hdl:pio Probing IDE interface ide4... hde: Host Protected Area detected. current capacity is 234441648 sectors (120034 MB) native capacity is 274103470214064 sectors (140340976749 MB) I can't even calculate how many terrabyte that'd be on just hde but I can only wish I had that amount of diskspace. So, probably, controller broken? I don't have another promise card to check, I can buy one tho. This still doesn't explain why libata doesn't detect the drives at least, even with invalid drive specifications. Or why it doesnt give me any sort of error at all. Ah well, I probably shouldnt be messing around right now anyway.... :) Tejun, Albert, thanks for the help so far, and to all people in Asia, happy new year :) Patrick - 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