Note that with all your patches applied, it doesn't seem to auto-tune the speed at boot anymore and doesn't enable DMA. I can make it do so with hdparm -d1, in which case, for example, on this wallstreet, I get MDMA2 which is correct, however, it seems to also set PIO0 which it should set PIO4... Ben. - 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