(Please don't top-post on Linux mailing lists.) Axel Uhl writes: > Hi Mikael, > > BTW, how do you know that all my PATA controllers are driven by libata? Because you wrote: > > > I also enabled > > > pata_via but was unsure which IDE driver to disable. and pata_via is libata's replacement for IDE's via82cxx. Since you kept both drivers enabled, it seems that IDE's via82cxx won the race to claim the hardware. Bummer. Just disable CONFIG_IDE. -- 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