> The solution is beginning to look more and more obvious: default to not use MDMA > modes for CF devices at boot. And eventually provide a sysfs or libata parameter > (or support/snoop SET_XFER_MODE) to change the mode later. I strongly disagree. We need to understand *why*, we need to fix any actual bugs we have. Lots and lots of people have no problems here. The people with problems and pure PATA all seem to have piix chips. 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