On Wed, 12 Mar 2008, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: Hi, :> Why this option is obsoleted ? It can be used on many systems when Linux :"hdx=noprobe" skips probing given IDE device, if given for all devices :on the contoller, the controller will be not probed at all :[ "hdx=noprobe" will be converted soon to "ide_core.noprobe=" parameter : as we _need_ to re-do parameters handling because the old interface : ("hdx=" / "idex=") is not compatible with the IDE warm-plug support ] Oh, thats good, some chance is left ;) :It still can be done - just they way of doing it will change: : * echo -n "0x168:0x36e:10" > /sys/class/ide_generic/add Thanks for clarifying. : : Rus -- 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