Tejun, that new patch worked better. Here is the dmesg output: [ 34.347350] scsi0 : pata_legacy [ 34.367366] ata1: PATA max PIO4 cmd 0x1f0 ctl 0x3f6 irq 14 [ 34.523330] ata1.00: ATA-4: QUANTUM FIREBALL CR8.4A, A5U.1200, max UDMA/66 [ 34.524804] ata1.00: 16514064 sectors, multi 0: LBA [ 34.525747] ata1.00: configured for PIO [ 34.569330] scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA QUANTUM FIREBALL A5U. PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 [ 34.655313] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 16514064 512-byte logical blocks: (8.45 GB/7.87 GiB) [ 34.674309] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off [ 34.675683] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 [ 34.689347] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA [ 34.691283] sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0 [ 34.800293] sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4 [ 34.890325] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk [ 34.976270] scsi1 : pata_legacy [ 34.999263] ata2: PATA max PIO4 cmd 0x170 ctl 0x376 irq 15 [ 35.448191] scsi2 : pata_legacy [ 35.486192] ata3: PATA max PIO4 cmd 0x1e8 ctl 0x3ee irq 11 [ 35.997114] scsi3 : pata_legacy [ 36.051103] ata4: PATA max PIO4 cmd 0x168 ctl 0x36e irq 10 [ 36.384057] genirq: Flags mismatch irq 8. 00000000 (platform) vs. 00000000 (rtc0) [ 36.571024] scsi4 : pata_legacy [ 36.626014] ata5: PATA max PIO4 cmd 0x160 ctl 0x366 irq 12 [ 42.143223] EXT4-fs (sda4): mounting ext3 file system using the ext4 subsystem and /proc/interrupts looks good: CPU0 0: 558552 XT-PIC-XT-PIC timer 1: 337 XT-PIC-XT-PIC i8042 2: 0 XT-PIC-XT-PIC cascade 4: 1 XT-PIC-XT-PIC 8: 0 XT-PIC-XT-PIC rtc0 14: 51538 XT-PIC-XT-PIC platform I would still like to get my patch in. If you have a motherboard where you cannot disable the secondary hard drive controllers, the pata_legacy driver will detect them and allocate the interrupt. Some way to disable this behavior is useful. - 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