> BTW in rc2 it does not even boot - it babbles something about > Unable to determine IRQ for 00:04.0 (which is IDE controller) and that is > the end of story. No IDE device is found. Thats not an IDE breakage I suspect. Various people are reporting IRQ related breakage with -rc2 so you should probably report that to the main linux-kernel list Doesn't explain the ALi DMA problem but I think its unrelated 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