On Sat, Sep 22, 2007 at 08:11:06PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:

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> From a "future behaviour" standpoint it would probably be interesting to 
> hear whether Mihai can make his machine with not with the old IDE layer 
> (which distributions are migrating away from) but with the ATA layer 
> (libata) instead. It too should hopefully know about using ACPI to restore 
> any ATA controller quirks.

It does, but it's disabled by default. libata needs to be loaded with 
noacpi=0.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
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