> Refresh my memory... what is the problem with loading pata_marvell first? The fact its almost impossible to do with a distribution kernel. eg you can't make it work with Fedora (see the Fedora bugs assigned to you) If pata_marvell should be driving these chips please remove the entries from the ahci.c driver as I asked before. If ahci.c should be driving them then we need the documentation for whatever extension they use driving the ports via AHCI. Clearly there is one as its possible under Windows. > AFAICS, if you load pata_marvell before ahci, it will grab the PATA > disks and the PCI device itself. If you have a degree in initrd-foo 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