The only difference between those two identify packets seems to be that the drive write-cache was disabled when dumped from the pata_cs5536, and enabled when dumped from AMD_IDE. [~] diff -u 1.id 2.id --- 1.id 2009-01-31 11:33:58.000000000 -0500 +++ 2.id 2009-01-31 11:34:11.000000000 -0500 @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ Commands/features: Enabled Supported: * Power Management feature set - Write cache + * Write cache * Look-ahead * WRITE_BUFFER command * READ_BUFFER command @@ -40,4 +40,4 @@ * Advanced Power Management feature set * Mandatory FLUSH_CACHE * CFA Power Level 1 (max 256mA) -Integrity word not set (found 0x0000, expected 0x4da5) +Integrity word not set (found 0x0000, expected 0x24a5) -- 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