> Standards: > Likely used: 1 Prehistory > LBA, IORDY not likely No DMA, nothing above PIO2 > Buffer type: 0002: dual port, multi-sector > Buffer size: 1.0kB bytes avail on r/w long: 4 > Cannot perform double-word IO Can't even do double word I/O The messages with old IDE should be harmless and the current libata IDE should drive it politely (I debugged a problem the same hardware showed up for someone else). Basically your dinosaur is working correctly. 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