I decided to give the new pata_macio a try on my old PMac G3 (Beige). None of the disks are connected to the PMAC IDE controller, but the CD-drive is. 2.6.32 with legacy IDE detects things nicely: ide-pmac: Found Apple Heathrow ATA controller (macio), bus ID 0, irq 30 Probing IDE interface ide0... hda: MATSHITA CR-585, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hda: host max PIO4 wanted PIO255(auto-tune) selected PIO3 hda: MWDMA1 mode selected ide0 at 0xf1018000-0xf1018070,0xf1018160 on irq 30 ide-pmac: Found Apple Heathrow ATA controller (macio), bus ID 1, irq 34 Probing IDE interface ide1... ide1 at 0xf1020000-0xf1020070,0xf1020160 on irq 34 ide-gd driver 1.18 ... ide-cd driver 5.00 ide-cd: hda: ATAPI 24X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20 but 2.6.33-rc2 with pata_macio does not: pata-macio 0.00020000:ide: Activating pata-macio chipset Heathrow ATA, Apple bus ID 0 scsi1 : pata_macio ata1: PATA max MWDMA2 irq 30 irq 30: nobody cared (try booting with the "irqpoll" option) Call Trace: [ef87bc40] [c00094a0] show_stack+0x74/0x1a8 (unreliable) [ef87bc70] [c006049c] __report_bad_irq+0x40/0xd4 [ef87bc90] [c0060728] note_interrupt+0x1f8/0x254 [ef87bcc0] [c0061144] handle_edge_irq+0xe4/0x1ac [ef87bce0] [c0007004] do_IRQ+0xa8/0xcc [ef87bd00] [c00142cc] ret_from_except+0x0/0x14 --- Exception: 501 at ata_eh_freeze_port+0x34/0x48 LR = ata_eh_freeze_port+0x30/0x48 [ef87bdd0] [c01a8f34] ata_eh_reset+0x370/0xd90 [ef87be50] [c01aabfc] ata_eh_recover+0x300/0x115c [ef87bee0] [c01abc60] ata_do_eh+0x54/0xc8 [ef87bf10] [c01adcb0] ata_sff_error_handler+0x144/0x228 [ef87bf30] [c01ac5ec] ata_scsi_error+0x320/0x548 [ef87bf60] [c017e4b4] scsi_error_handler+0x174/0x444 [ef87bfc0] [c0046b88] kthread+0x80/0x84 [ef87bff0] [c0013a44] kernel_thread+0x4c/0x68 handlers: [<c01afc68>] (ata_sff_interrupt+0x0/0x12c) Disabling IRQ #30 ata1.00: ATAPI: MATSHITA CR-585, ZS20, max MWDMA1 ata1.00: configured for MWDMA1 pata-macio 0.00021000:ide: Activating pata-macio chipset Heathrow ATA, Apple bus ID 1 scsi2 : pata_macio ata2: PATA max MWDMA2 irq 34 ... ata1.00: qc timeout (cmd 0xa0) ata1.00: TEST_UNIT_READY failed (err_mask=0x5) ata1.00: configured for MWDMA1 ata1.00: qc timeout (cmd 0xa0) ata1.00: TEST_UNIT_READY failed (err_mask=0x5) ata1.00: limiting speed to MWDMA1:PIO2 ata1.00: configured for MWDMA1 ata1.00: qc timeout (cmd 0xa0) ata1.00: TEST_UNIT_READY failed (err_mask=0x5) ata1.00: disabled ata1: soft resetting link ata1: EH complete /Mikael -- 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