> I have the same kernel and configuration on my Dell D600 (an older > version of the same laptop), and hdparm –d works just fine. We you using the IDE driver for PATA devices and the SATA driver for SATA devices ? If so the really nasty hacks for that were dropped as current libata PATA support is more than good enough for driving both ports and having one driver for both cleaned up stuff a lot. 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