> places where the bit must be twiddled. Its easier to leave the bit in > the BIOS-initialized state, and ignore the hardware bit's existence in > software, if we know the behavior in the controller is hardwired. Less > room for software bugs that way, IMO. The AMD docs don't categorically answer that question either way that I can see. The bit appears to make no difference but.. Alan - 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