On Nov 11, 2008, at 15:29, Mark Lord wrote:
. Yeah, that's the right one. But if you are technically apt, then perhaps you could try a brief experiment for us: Use drivers/ide instead, and see what it reports in the boot log. One simple way to do this, is to boot a Knoppix CD, say v5.01 or so (but not the newest version, which probably uses libata instead). Then just grab the boot log with dmesg, and post it here.
Ok, recompiled the kernel with the old driver, here the relevant dmesg output.
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver piix 0000:00:07.1: IDE controller (0x8086:0x7010 rev 0x00) piix 0000:00:07.1: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later ide0: BM-DMA at 0xe800-0xe807 ide1: BM-DMA at 0xe808-0xe80f Probing IDE interface ide0... hda: IC35L040AVER07-0, ATA DISK drive hda: host max PIO4 wanted PIO255(auto-tune) selected PIO4 hda: MWDMA2 mode selected Probing IDE interface ide1... hdc: SAMSUNG CD-R/RW SW-408B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hdc: host max PIO4 wanted PIO255(auto-tune) selected PIO4 hdc: MWDMA2 mode selected ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 Hope that helps, Mike -- 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