> Ok, I've got this ASUS P5A-B motherboard, with this Acer Labs M5229/c1 IDE
> interface. This is the output of lspci -v:
>[snip]
> The BIOS is correctly set to "Auto" in the PIO/UltraDMA IDE modes.
> My question is: is it me, or the latest kernels cannot support ALi M5229 ide
> interface?
It's available as a patch at http://www.dyer.vanderbilt.edu/server/udma/
[ note of LTT maintainer : seems to be obsolete, so try http://www.linuxhelp.org/linuxide/ ]
It's also being included in the 2.3.x development series, and has a
possibility of being merged into 2.2.x