Phil Dibowitz wrote:
> I just upgraded my computer, compiled a new kernel appropriately, and 
> I'm getting a ton of kernel issues surrounding the IDE driver. I tried a 
> generic debian kernel as well, but same issue. Here are the tracebacks I 
> get during boot:
> 
> Oct 30 15:56:19 rider kernel: ide0 at 0xefe0-0xefe7,0xefae on irq 5
> Oct 30 15:56:19 rider kernel: hda: max request size: 128KiB

So, it turns out if I change the IDE Configuration in my BIOS to be 
"Compatible mode" instead of "Enhanced Mode", this is fixed completely. 
All my drives work flawelessly.

Any idea what, if any, features I'm missing, or how to make linux work 
with "enhanced mode" ?

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