I've produced a patch against the Debian 2.4.27 sources, which adds ata_piix support (ICH6, ICH7). A lot of Dell machines use this chipset. Its pretty klugey, but I hope its useful. http://www.math.gatech.edu/~lindsey/libata-piix-2.4.27.patch.tar.bz2 http://www.math.gatech.edu/~lindsey/libata-piix-2.4.27.patch.deb -Larry