> I am not ready to trust that pata_ali works as well as alim15x3 in all > cases. Someone should test e.g. Alpha AXP systems with IDE (use > alim15x3) to make sure all is well. My pata_ali is reported to do so. I don't know if yours does because my libata tree has some changes to set the controller to PIO when doing the initial reset/probe which may be needed if you don't have BIOS init. If it doesn't it won't be hard to tweak. The timing rules are taken from the documentation. 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