At least 2 drivers (siimage and cs5535) have a bug where they use the construct: ide_drive_t *pair = &hwif->drives[drive->dn ^ 1]; To access the other drive in a master/slave pair. This is bogus because drive->dn is not the unit number, but the global drive number, thus can be 2 & 3 for ide1, 4 & 5 for ide2 etc... This causes the driver to access beyond the drive array into lalaland for any other interface than ide0 and in some case, actually crash :-) These 3 patches fix those by introducing a ide_get_paired_drive() helper that does the right thing and then using it. Please apply to 2.6.24 if no objection. - 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