On Jul 22, Bill Studenmund wrote
> Hello,
> 
> A few months back, I asked about a new Pentium motherboard. I learned that
> the PCI640 is a PCI-based IDE controller. The boot messages on the machine
> agree.

isn't that what what Linux identifies as:
ide: buggy CMD640B interface on pci (0x80003800); serialized, secondary port toggled

You can enable support and buxfix support for this chip in Linux,
but I don't know if the secondary bus work (I have only one drive in this
machine).

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