Stephan Seitz wrote: > No, but there maybe two things: > 1) Do you have the chipset driver installed (compiled into the kernel > or loaded as module)? Look at dmesg output, what your kernel says > about your hardware. > > 2) You don't have a chipset supported by linux. Yes, this may happen.
By "chipset" do you mean the motherboard's IDE hardware? > You could post the output of lspci and dmesg. OK! end of 'dmesg' output after running the hdparm commands again hda: CHECK for good STATUS hda: drive_cmd: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hda: drive_cmd: error=0x04 { AbortedCommand } ide: failed opcode was: 0xef hda: drive_cmd: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hda: drive_cmd: error=0x04 { AbortedCommand } ide: failed opcode was: 0xef hda: CHECK for good STATUS hda: CHECK for good STATUS hda: drive_cmd: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hda: drive_cmd: error=0x04 { AbortedCommand } ide: failed opcode was: 0xef hda: drive_cmd: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hda: drive_cmd: error=0x04 { AbortedCommand } ide: failed opcode was: 0xef hda: CHECK for good STATUS partial output of 'lspci -v' 0000:00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) IDE Controller (rev 03) (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP]) Subsystem: Asustek Computer, Inc.: Unknown device 80a6 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 209 I/O ports at <unassigned> I/O ports at <unassigned> I/O ports at <unassigned> I/O ports at <unassigned> I/O ports at ffa0 [size=16] 0000:00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FW (ICH6/ICH6W) SATA Controller (rev 03) (prog-if 8f [Master SecP SecO PriP PriO]) Subsystem: Asustek Computer, Inc.: Unknown device 2601 Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 225 I/O ports at 8c00 [size=8] I/O ports at 8880 [size=4] I/O ports at 8800 [size=8] I/O ports at 8480 [size=4] I/O ports at 8400 [size=16] Capabilities: [70] Power Management version 2 # lsmod |grep ide ide_generic 1216 0 [permanent] ide_disk 18016 0 ide_cd 41892 0 ide_core 130384 5 usb_storage,piix,ide_generic,ide_disk,ide_cd cdrom 41216 1 ide_cd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]