Rus V. Brushkoff wrote: > On Sun, 9 Mar 2008, Tejun Heo wrote: > > :Oh, and if it does, please post the result of "hdparm -I" after booting. > > Wow, with this patch all works like a sharm ! hdparm -I output attached. > If something has to be send for bogus acer phoenix bios writers - I can do > this dirty job with special pleasure ;) > > /dev/sda: > > ATA device, with non-removable media > Model Number: WDC WD2500BEVS-22UST0 > Serial Number: WD-WXEX07G90288 > Firmware Revision: 01.01A01 <--snip--> > Software settings preservation Yeap, the BIOS is turning off SSP explicitly. I wonder what the heck they tried to achieved by doing this. Definitely worth reporting to the vendor. Thanks. -- tejun -- 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