> Can we force ata_piix to pick up the IDE controller? I mean the old IDE > PIIX driver can do it (albeit terribly slow), so why can't ata_piix? I I doubt PIIX is doing it - the legacy IDE bits are. What I think is going on is this (and I don't have docs so I am guessing) - The SOHO NAS has the IDE DOM wired to the LPC bus somewhere directly (as legacy IDE) - The PATA port is intentionally disabled by the firmware to make room for the DOM. In which case loading "pata_legacy" ought to make the right magic occur. Can you send me an If that is the case I suspect the PIIX PATA port is not used at all by the sytstem (is it even wired to pins anywhere ?). If it is used then presumably the original NAS firmware does something truely hideous along the lines of - Load boot image from DOM - Turn off DOM/on PIIX - Start using PIIX 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
