Hi people ! Big news here :
- I didn't apply the first patch since the disk drive installed in my machine is exactly an "old" Western Digital :) > hdparm -I /dev/sda ! ! /dev/sda: ! ! ATA device, with non-removable media ! Model Number: WDC WD1200BEVE-00WZT0 ..... ___________________________________________ (The original disk was a Seagate Momentum) - Big Hammer Patch does not work , as expected , at least in my case since my machine is a ACER branded Pentium-m with the ICH4-M controller .... so I've applied a "bigger hammer patch" (I've flagged all ICH4 family chips with "ich_pata_100_nolog" ) and ..... this is not working too :) Same behaviour as before :)