I just confirmed that two PATA-era major BIOS brands do SRST. They do check for the device signature in TF registers... but only for the ATA device signature. Jeff - 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