
The help notes in menuconfig advise that most SATA drives are supported by the SCSI subsytem and use libdata. Now, it just so happens that my default sata.i 2.4 kernel that I use to boot Slackware gives this very message when I examine the output of dmesg. The question is, where do I turn this on in the kernel?
PS. I also note that the early output, before the kernel panic, says "IDE: assuming 33MHz system bus speed". I do not get this message when using my default kernel. What have I missed here?