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From: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
Subject: Re: No IDE drivers loaded for Toshiba Satellite 320 CDS
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 17:29:18 +0200
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On Monday 14 April 2008, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > 2) it is only loaded if an ISA bus is present
>
> All PC class systems have an ISA bus, it may be on the main board and
> called LPC but it is there.

The actual test is if /sys/bus/isa exists, which it does not at least on my 
current PC class desktop (em64t).
My 4 year old laptop (i386) does have it though.