Jerry Geis wrote: > I am running centos 5.2 i686. > > The /boot/config indicates that VIA82CXXXX is built into the kernel. > CONFIG_BLK_DEV_VIA82CXXX=y > > my lspci -v gives > 00:0f.0 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. CX700M2 IDE (prog-if 8a > ... those are two different chipsets, the CX700M2 is for the C4 family of ITX mini boards, while hte 82C7xxx stuff is their older northbridges for desktop systems... googling for that, I saw mention that Via has a linux patch for it, and apparently all it does is add a new PCI vendor/device ID so the existing drivers recognize the new chip. you can probably find the CX700M2's PCI vendor/device ID with lspci(8)