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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: drive side 80-wire cable detection failed
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> As far as I understood it, pata_acpi should fix the problem, but I'm not 
> sure on the required configuration. Do I have to disable the normal 
> IDE-support? How 'experimental' is the PATA support?

The pata_amd (AMD/Nvidia) driver is pretty robust, but I would expect the
same results from both in your case at the moment. Tejun is still fixing
ACPI bits so after that it might be worth trying.

Alan