> Does anyone know if the ALi M5229 actually exists outside of one of > the M1543 bridges? Yes - it exists in various forms in all sorts of ALi/ULi chipset products. > Note, this hardly seems to be a board-quirk, it is more of a device > quirk... Your description so far is of "device not put in a valid configuration according to the spec" - that seems to me to be board problems. -- 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