Running 2.6.24-rc6 here. I just installed a combo card, 3 sata ports, one pata port, VIA VT6421 chip on it. I do not have an ide drive attached to it, and my bios does not acknowledge the presence of the card or the sata drive attached, meaning I have to keep a ide drive for use as the /boot partition. I have built the pata_via module as well as the sata_via module and once booted it all works except the boot doesn't autoload the pata_via module, and when I manually load it with modprobe, or rmmod it, there is no mention of it in dmesg or the system messags log, nor does it effect the lspci output. Should it not at least report the chip number? Or is it all covered by this: from lspci, with or without pata_via loaded 01:0a.0 RAID bus controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6421 IDE RAID Controller (rev 50) Thanks. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Higher education helps your earning capacity. Ask any college professor. - 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
