>This indicates that you're using the old ide-cs driver (under >CONFIG_IDE in the kernel config) and I would like to suggest that you >try to use the new libata based pata_pcmcia driver (under CONFIG_ATA) >instead. Disable CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDECS and enable CONFIG_PATA_PCMCIA.
Thanks, I have recompiled and installed the linux-2.6.23.1 with the above flags set through 'make xconfig'. Installing the card into a running system gives the following messages: pccard: PCMCIA card inserted into slot 0 pcmcia: registering new device pcmcia0.0 ata1.01: failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error, err_mask=0x2) ata1: port is slow to respond, please be patient (Status 0x80) ata1: SRST failed (errno=-16) ata1.00: qc timeout (cmd 0xec) ata1.00: failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error, err_mask=0x4) ata1: port is slow to respond, please be patient (Status 0x80) ata1: device not ready (errno=-16), forcing hardreset ata1.00: qc timeout (cmd 0xec) ata1.00: failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error, err_mask=0x4) ata1.00: limiting speed to UDMA7:PIO5 ata1: port is slow to respond, please be patient (Status 0x80) ata1: device not ready (errno=-16), forcing hardreset Cheers, Michael _______________________________________________ Linux PCMCIA reimplementation list http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-pcmcia
