In message <19980614214035.61745@antioche.lip6.fr>, Manuel Bouyer writes:
>The whole IDE system is a bit different. Especially the probe routines tries
>to be more accurates regarding the specs (the actual probe routine times out
>after 10s, where the specs says that a reset can take up to 31s).
>It also supports PCI IDE controllers with DMA and Ultra-DMA.

Ahh!  That's probably it, I think this laptop's board claims to support UDMA.

So, what was the last question before the actual extraction?  Ends
something like
	apparaetre au fur et a mesure qu-ils seront extraits?
I couldn't figure out what it was.  I gave up and said Non.

-s