Hello, commenting out the error check after ata_dev_init_params() call in ata_dev_read_id() function (libata-core.c), I got at least the device name. The capacity is 0 so it doesn't work, obviously: pata_it821x: controller in smart mode. ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] enabled at IRQ 11 ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:12.0[A] -> Link [LNKC] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:12.0 to 64 scsi2 : pata_it821x scsi3 : pata_it821x ata3: PATA max MWDMA2 cmd 0x6800 ctl 0x6c00 bmdma 0x7800 irq 11 ata4: PATA max MWDMA2 cmd 0x7000 ctl 0x7400 bmdma 0x7808 irq 11 ata3.00: ATA-7: SAMSUNG HD400LD, WQ100-15, max UDMA/100 ata3.00: 781422768 sectors, multi 0: LBA48 ata3.01: ATA-0: Integrated Technology Express Inc, , max MWDMA2 ata3.01: 0 sectors, multi 0, CHS 0/0/0 IT821x RAID1 volume. ata3.00: configured for DMA ata3.01: configured for PIO scsi 2:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA SAMSUNG HD400LD WQ10 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] 781422768 512-byte hardware sectors (400088 MB) sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] 781422768 512-byte hardware sectors (400088 MB) sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA sdb: sdb1 sdb2 sdb3 sdb4 sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0 scsi 2:0:1:0: Direct-Access ATA Integrated Techn n/a PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 sd 2:0:1:0: [sdc] Too big for this kernel. Use a kernel compiled with support for large block devices. sd 2:0:1:0: [sdc] 0 512-byte hardware sectors (0 MB) sd 2:0:1:0: [sdc] Write Protect is off sd 2:0:1:0: [sdc] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 sd 2:0:1:0: [sdc] Write cache: disabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA sd 2:0:1:0: [sdc] Attached SCSI disk sd 2:0:1:0: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 0 (0 is too big for the kernel, interesting :) -- Ondrej Zary -- 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
