Well I do know this is not the right mailing list but you're so kind, so... ;) Ok, I've got this ASUS P5A-B motherboard, with this Acer Labs M5229/c1 IDE interface. This is the output of lspci -v:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Acer Laboratories Inc. M1541 (rev 04) Subsystem: Unknown device 10b9:1541 Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 64 Memory at e0000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Acer Laboratories Inc.: Unknown device 5243 (rev 04) Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 64 Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=64 I/O behind bridge: 0000e000-0000dfff Memory behind bridge: de800000-dfffffff Prefetchable memory behind bridge: e7f00000-e7ffffff 00:03.0 Bridge: Acer Laboratories Inc. M7101 Subsystem: Unknown device 10b9:7101 Flags: medium devsel 00:07.0 ISA bridge: Acer Laboratories Inc. M1533 (rev c3) Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0 00:0f.0 IDE interface: Acer Laboratories Inc. M5229 (rev c1) (prog-if 8a) Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ ? I/O ports at d800 01:00.0 Display controller: Texas Instruments TVP4020 [Permedia 2] (rev 01) Subsystem: Unknown device 1092:0146 Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11 Memory at df800000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) Memory at df000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) Memory at de800000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) ... and the kernel (2.2.9) says... ... PCI_IDE: unknown IDE controller on PCI bus 00 device 78, VID=10b9, DID=5229 PCI_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later PCI_IDE: simplex device: DMA disabled ide0: PCI_IDE Bus-Master DMA disabled (BIOS) PCI_IDE: simplex device: DMA disabled ide1: PCI_IDE Bus-Master DMA disabled (BIOS) hda: WDC AC313000R, ATA DISK drive hdb: 685A, ATAPI CDROM drive hdc: IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI, ATAPI FLOPPY drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 hda: WDC AC313000R, 12416MB w/512kB Cache, CHS=25228/16/63 hdb: ATAPI 7X CD-ROM drive, 120kB Cache Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.55 hdc: 98304kB, 96/64/32 CHS, 4096 kBps, 512 sector size, 2941 rpm hdc: The drive reports both 100663296 and 0 bytes as its capacity ... The BIOS is correctly set to "Auto" in the PIO/UltraDMA IDE modes. My question is: is it me, or the latest kernels cannot support ALi M5229 ide interface? Another question: I really made a mistake buying a WDC AC313000R, didn't I? ;) Ciao, Illo. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ilario Nardinocchi, [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Computer Science Adept since 1982 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Know-nothing-bozo rule: The views expressed above are entirely mine and do not represent the views, policy or understanding of any other person or official body. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------