> commit 1b2c357c301b76118973763e886d9f70a7f50f7e > pata_ali: force initialise a few bits > > I tried to backout the commit but that didn't succeed. So I looked carefully > at the diff and I came out with the attached patch which seems to fix the > problem (at least now the kernel detects the partitions correctly). Thanks for doing this. Can you send me an lspci -vvxxx and a dmesg of the machine in question. > Since I saw that the above commit is fixing some real bugs (sunblade related) > I don't know whether the attached patch is right or is backing out the > intended fix. All I know is that it works for me and for this reason I'm > reporting it. Some of the registers involved are deep magic (even with the official documentation its unclear what should occur in all cases). I will have another dig - probably it depends on the chip rev what the right setting is. 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