Hello, I have IDE/ATA disk on my system and I have driver been loaded for it. I am writing another standalone driver which is a kernel module which can directly talk to this IDE/ADA disk controllers. This driver has to send some hardware command to this disk controller and get the information from the controller and also this is not at all communicating with the native driver . I am not sure whether such driver would exist or not. -Vany -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ IRC Channel: irc.openprojects.net / #kernelnewbies Web Page: http://www.kernelnewbies.org/