> The notion of "pass through" in Hyper-V is a little different. IDE devices can be configured > under either one of the supported controllers and these devices can either be virtual disks > (VHDs) or physical disks. In either case these will be presented to the guest as IDE devices. So what ensures that by skipping it at the ATA device level we will always find it as a VHD ? 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