Here are the boot messages starting from the first mention of libata. My SATA controler is an intel and this was defined in the SCSI section. libata version 1.02 loaded. ata_piix version 1.02 ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1f.2[C] -> GSI 5 (level, low) -> IRQ 5 ata: 0x1f0 IDE port busy PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.2 to 64 ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x170 ctl 0x376 bmdma 0xFEA8 irq 15 ATA: abnormal status 0xFF on port 0x177 ata1: disabling port scsi1 : ata_piix [SCSI0 is the controler I use to run Linux from an external SCSI drive.] I beleive we've got a hardware-configuration problem which probably could be changed in CMOS. If anyone can recommend any changes, I'd appreciate it. Again, this is a Dell dimentions 8400 machine. Many thanks.
