hi... Machine: DEC Alpha XL300 (Alcor/XLT) boots from scsi, and ide is used modular IDE-Controller: Promise ATA100 controller (PCI card) bios knows absolutely nothing about IDE (there aren't even options to set drive geometry etc) Deadlocks on loading the ide-modules with modprobe ide-probe-mod || return=$rc_failed modprobe ide-disk || return=$rc_failed (Nothing in the logs, no visible output on the screen) Applying Andre Hedrick's ide.2.4.1-p8.all.01172001.patch.gz fixes it - with this patch ide works like a charm - thanks for your good work Andre! more info's available on request c'ya sven -- The Internet treats censorship as a routing problem, and routes around it. (John Gilmore on http://www.cygnus.com/~gnu/) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/