>Do you know why the ahci driver won't load? Undoubtedly the chip is being used in "combined mode", to support a PATA ATAPI device on the second channel. For that matter, the primary HD is probably actually PATA, perhaps with a SATA bridge on the notebook M/B. Very very common arrangement these days -- practically all Sonoma Centrino chipset notebooks are set up like this. Cheers - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html