> The new disk driver (libata) wraps in SATA, and IDE drives. Since it > is now the default in F7, and since it is not as mature as the old IDE > drivers, it sometimes fails to pick them up. More likely as the machine is pre-production it contains unknown IDE device types. The old kernels (FC6 and earlier) included a generic ISA style fallback driver which FC7 does not and would thus drive unknown chipsets. Thats purely a compile time choice of the kernel builder. Alan
