BTW unless I'm misreading the i386 code it'll not fail here, but allocate memory. Surely that will cause failures later if you rely on it failing? If you don't rely on it then changing x86-64 will also not help you. -Andi - 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