> And I know I won't be the only person in this kind of situation. > > So, proceeding in any other way is really a non-starter. Then keep old IDE until the hardware rots. Its not worth contaminating libata and the scsi core with magic glue that only Dave Miller uses ;) 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