Michael Biebl wrote: >Apparently, other distros like Fedora or Ubuntu, completely disable the old IDE >subsystem, so they are not hit by this bug.
They are not hit by _this_ bug, but they are hit by bugs like this one: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/307829 There are out there some recent pieces of hardware (like this nvidia chipsets, pata_amd module) that have been working like a charm with the "old IDE subsystem", but are (still?) not working (yet?) with libata. Regards, Dionisio MartÃnez Soler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org