HPT371 chips physically have only one channel, the secondary one, however the primary channel registers do exist! Thus we have to manually disable the non-existing channel (if the BIOS hasn't done this already). Alan Cox has only added such code to the 'pata_hpt3x2n' driver, forgetting about this one... :-/ Signed-off-by: Sergey Shtylyov <s.shtylyov@xxxxxx> --- This patch is against the 'for-next' branch of Damien Le Moal's 'libata.git' repo. drivers/ata/pata_hpt37x.c | 14 ++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+) Index: libata/drivers/ata/pata_hpt37x.c =================================================================== --- libata.orig/drivers/ata/pata_hpt37x.c +++ libata/drivers/ata/pata_hpt37x.c @@ -867,6 +867,20 @@ static int hpt37x_init_one(struct pci_de pci_write_config_byte(dev, 0x5a, irqmask); /* + * HPT371 chips physically have only one channel, the secondary one, + * but the primary channel registers do exist! Go figure... + * So, we manually disable the non-existing channel here + * (if the BIOS hasn't done this already). + */ + if (dev->device == PCI_DEVICE_ID_TTI_HPT371) { + u8 mcr1; + + pci_read_config_byte(dev, 0x50, &mcr1); + mcr1 &= ~0x04; + pci_write_config_byte(dev, 0x50, mcr1); + } + + /* * default to pci clock. make sure MA15/16 are set to output * to prevent drives having problems with 40-pin cables. Needed * for some drives such as IBM-DTLA which will not enter ready