Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:

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I'm hoping to reach the maintainer of the Linux IDE driver for the
Compaq TriFlex controller.  I have a problem with this driver when used
with a Compaq Armada 7730MT while docked in the base station.

The driver appears to only support one triflex controller, due to a
missing check (that other chipset drivers have) that should prevent it
from registering a /proc interface more than once.  The result is that
it hangs on boot in proc_ide_create() in an infinite loop.

Please send outputs of 'lspci' and 'dmesg' commands.

Attached are lspci and dmesg output, _alone = old kernel on laptop only, 
and _dock_fix = patched kernel in base station.

 > Does this patch fixes hang?

The patch allows booting while docked, and I tested a CD-ROM in the base 
station - it works!

 > Does 'cat /proc/ide/triflex' produce sane output?

Other /proc files seem ok, except /proc/ide/triflex, which spews 
garbage.  ld-linux.so was in the output, so it seems to be just 
returning random memory contents.  Smells like a pointer problem.

But this is great progress!  Thanks so much for your efforts!

Regards,

Jeremy Jackson