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> > Do you really need this, and if so please why ?
> 
> Because IDE_ARCH_OBSOLETE_INIT is not defined? [ See ide.h. ]

Exactly. Doing so is, apparently, obsolete. However, the IDE register pointers
aren't then initialised and the kernel crashes with a null pointer exception,
IIRC.

David