Hello again, I've been thinking about it. Maybe I'm speaking nonsense here but: The "FSG case" (i.e: when I use original freecom kernel" and can see the drive) shows: ata1: PATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x1420 ctl 0x142A bmdma 0x1400 irq 22 ata2: PATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x1440 ctl 0x144A bmdma 0x1410 irq 22 ata3: PATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x1430 ctl 0x143A bmdma 0x1408 irq 22 (Always PATA). whereas the debian kernel shows: ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x1420 ctl 0x142A bmdma 0x1400 irq 22 ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x1430 ctl 0x143A bmdma 0x1408 irq 22 ata3: PATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x1440 ctl 0x144A bmdma 0x1410 irq 22 And my internal drive is IDE(PATA, I guess). Could you please post the result of lspci on your system? It could be that my model has VT6421 and yours has a different one. Maybe I should start thinking about compiling my own kernel. Meanwhile, if you already are running something newer than 2.6.20 I'd really like you to send me the image for "kexec-ing" it. Best regards Juan |