>From what I've been able to find on the net it seems like this is related to the Libata PATA (Parallel ATA) merge in linux 2.6.19. On the status page http://zeniv.linux.org.uk/~alan/IDE/STATUS.txt it says the following:
"PIIX: Should support all chipsets but PIIX/MPIIX." that's a bit cryptic, but i believe it simply means that particular driver won't work. so how do i use the old driver without recompiling kernel from source? -- Extremely Slow boot up PATA disk detected as sda https://launchpad.net/bugs/94981 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs