Andrew Hall wrote: >> I suppose you were using ata_piix too in older kernel, right? Can you >> post the boot dmesg of 2.6.19? We used to ignore mwdma mode before and >> enabled it at some point after that. That may be the cause here. >> >> Also, please try the attached patch on top of 2.6.20. > > Sorry guys, I've actually got it wrong. The hardware that I have been > testing on has a different chipset: Intel ICH8, to what I was using > previously with success with 2.6.19 (this was ICH4 based hardware) - so the > driver is actually different now. > > Tejun, your patch for 2.6.20 failed with the same errors. > > For completeness I have tested the newer ICH8 hardware with everything from > 2.6.15 through to 2.6.21.5 using the ata_piix drivers and it (the Compact > Flash) fails in all kernels. Here is the (relevant) dmesg from 2.6.21.5 > showing the CF being disabled: Does piix driver work? If so, can you post boot dmesg and the result of 'hdparm -I /dev/hdX'? -- tejun - 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