I just noticed error messages in dmesg which shouldn't be there:
ICH5: chipset revision 2
ICH5: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xfc00-0xfc07, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xfc08-0xfc0f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
Probing IDE interface ide0...
hda: SAMSUNG SP0802N, ATA DISK drive
hdb: SAMSUNG SP0802N, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Probing IDE interface ide1...
hdc: PLEXTOR CD-R PX-W5224A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdd: PLEXTOR DVD-ROM PX-116A2 0100, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
Probing IDE interface ide2...
ide2: Wait for ready failed before probe !
It keeps on until ide5. Since I only have the two usual ide controllers,
this appears harmless, but why should an inexistent controller be
probed?
Kernel: 2.6.10-gentoo-r4
sys-fs/udev-045
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Jorge Almeida
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