Hi all, I found http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_SATA and worke though it and sata portion listed in dmesg not pata. Tried turning on a couple of defines in libata.h but this did not help
Maurice <snip from dmesg> input: ImPS/2 Logitech Wheel Mouse as /class/input/input1 hda: QUANTUM KATANA, ATA DISK drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 Probing IDE interface ide1... hdd: SONY CDU4811, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 hda: max request size: 128KiB hda: 20159282 sectors (10321 MB) w/1900KiB Cache, CHS=19999/16/63, UDMA(33) hda: cache flushes not supported hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 < hda5 hda6 > hdd: ATAPI 48X CD-ROM drive, 120kB Cache, UDMA(33) Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20 libata version 1.20 loaded. sata_via 0000:00:09.0: version 1.1 ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] enabled at IRQ 5 PCI: setting IRQ 5 as level-triggered ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:09.0[A] -> Link [LNKB] -> GSI 5 (level, low) -> IRQ 5 sata_via 0000:00:09.0: routed to hard irq line 5 ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xD400 ctl 0xD40A bmdma 0xE400 irq 5 ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xD800 ctl 0xD80A bmdma 0xE408 irq 5 ata1: SATA link down (SStatus 0) scsi0 : sata_via ata2: SATA link down (SStatus 0) scsi1 : sata_via ieee1394: raw1394: /dev/raw1394 device initialized </snip>
