From: Yann Dirson <ydirson@xxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 00:07:37 +0200 > OTOH, we see here that the system believes in existence of "ide1", > although the vt6415 appears to be single-channel > (http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/peripherals/pci_pcie/vt6415/) I think this is unlikely as the ATA layer pata_via.c driver also does not mark this device as single-channel. Have you tried just booting up with the ATA driver enabled instead of the IDE layer one? Please do that as it might help narrow this down. -- 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