> 03:00.0 IDE interface: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Unknown device 6101 (rev b1) (prog-if 8f [Master SecP SecO PriP PriO]) > Subsystem: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Unknown device 6101 > Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 10 > I/O ports at 1018 [size=8] > I/O ports at 1024 [size=4] > I/O ports at 1010 [size=8] > I/O ports at 1020 [size=4] > I/O ports at 1000 [size=16] > Memory at 52100000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512] > Capabilities: <access denied> > > which apparently is known to have problems with FC6. Marvell PATA support postdates FC6 - its in 2.6.19-mm. > > I tried the kernel option "all_generic_ide" but with no success That ought to do the trick unless the generic ide driver is built modular in which case it gets messier.