Hi Alan, > On a PCI box however you should always have a matching PCI driver, True - in this case PIIX4, and selecting it makes things work (but was not required earlier). > If you have a PCI ATA driver which is not handled by any of the libata > drivers and is not known by ata_generic then please let me know. Also libata needs the additional selection of PIIX4, but then works fine. (Of course all devices are renamed.) Andries > if its hitting a lot of people Maybe a few hundred visible via Google. One in every hundred thousand users? --- Post by Thomas Ingerslev 2009-09-02 I have been struggling with error this fore quite a while, and have finally found a solution. ... I ended up with just adding ide_generic.probe_mask=0x03 ... -- 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