With pata disabled, the ata assignments still move around, so this was unrelated. I will report back if I still get the link down after 20 boots. P > Now, with pata_marvell NOT compiled into the kernel, on the first try I am > getting the hard drives on ata1.00, ata1.01, ata2.00 and ata2.01, and the > Sony BWU on sata3, which seems "correct" given the ports I have the drives > plugged into. -- 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