Alan, >> Alan, >> on my hardware it grabbed all those interrupts, showing up in >> /proc/interrupts very clearly. > > Do you have a dmesg of the boot ? > Here is the relevant dmesg information and also the /proc/interrupts results: dmesg info: [ 22.534587] scsi host0: pata_legacy [ 22.566618] ata1: PATA max PIO4 cmd 0x1f0 ctl 0x3f6 irq 14 [ 22.730639] ata1.00: ATA-4: QUANTUM FIREBALL CR8.4A, A5U.1200, max UDMA/66 [ 22.730639] ata1.00: 16514064 sectors, multi 0: LBA [ 22.730639] ata1.00: configured for PIO [ 22.738601] scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA QUANTUM FIREBALL 1200 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 [ 22.798627] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 16514064 512-byte logical blocks: (8.45 GB/7.87 GiB) [ 22.818640] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off [ 22.818640] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 [ 22.830629] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA [ 22.934729] sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4 [ 23.062648] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk [ 23.162640] scsi host1: pata_legacy [ 23.186648] ata2: PATA max PIO4 cmd 0x170 ctl 0x376 irq 15 [ 23.494643] scsi host2: pata_legacy [ 23.518656] ata3: PATA max PIO4 cmd 0x1e8 ctl 0x3ee irq 11 [ 23.830691] scsi host3: pata_legacy [ 23.854692] ata4: PATA max PIO4 cmd 0x168 ctl 0x36e irq 10 [ 24.086711] genirq: Flags mismatch irq 8. 00000000 (pata_legacy.4) vs. 00000000 (rtc0) [ 24.190692] scsi host4: pata_legacy [ 24.214697] ata5: PATA max PIO4 cmd 0x160 ctl 0x366 irq 12 /proc/interrupts info : CPU0 0: 49060 XT-PIC timer ... 10: 0 XT-PIC pata_legacy.3 11: 0 XT-PIC pata_legacy.2 12: 0 XT-PIC pata_legacy.5 14: 41233 XT-PIC pata_legacy.0 15: 0 XT-PIC pata_legacy.1 ... Tejun: I will build a kernel with your patches today and let you know the results. - Matthew -- 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