Hello all: At Thu, 12 Sep 2002 09:19:29 +0800, I sended this patch, Now it works fine in my machine. It make faster(~5X) than without it. Please apply. @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ with patch @@@@@@@@@@@@@@ # hdparm -t /dev/hda /dev/hda: Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 15.76 seconds = 4.06 MB/sec # dmesg *** Snip **** Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx ICH3M: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev f9 PCI: Device 00:1f.1 not available because of resource collisions ICH3M: (ide_setup_pci_device:) Could not enable device. *** Snip **** @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ with patch @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ # hdparm -t /dev/hda /dev/hda: Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 3.29 seconds = 19.45 MB/sec # dmesg **** Snip *** ICH3M: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev f9 PCI: Enabling device 00:1f.1 (0005 -> 0007) PCI: Assigned IRQ 5 for device 00:1f.1 ICH3M: chipset revision 2 ***** Snip ***** (thanks for Frederic Garzon reported) I we can add it into 2.4.X kernel. here is it again. ---------------------------------------------- -- - Hu Gang