VIA vt6410 IDE controller not activating

[Alan Cox]

> allow connection of up to four IDE devices. The controller is not 
> activating with Fedora 8 (32-bit) and kernel 2.6.24.4-64. The system is 
> fully updated. Does anyone know what I need to do to get this controller 
> card to work?

Can you open a bug for that configuration, attach an lspci -vvxxx, dmesg
and assign it to "alan at redhat.com" and I'll put my work hat on and sort
it out. I suspect the fact you have it as a plug in card is indeed
throwing the driver.

Alan