"disable ata" in kernel configuration not working?

[Andy Farkas]

> > atapci0 at pci0:5:0:       class=0x010400 card=0x00000000 chip=0x4d33105a rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
> >     vendor   = 'Promise Technology Inc'
> >     device   = 'PDC20246 FastTrak Ultra ATA RAID controller'
> >     class    = mass storage
> >     subclass = RAID
>
> Still certain you don't have an ATA controller in your system?  If
> this is a dual-channel controller, the channels will appear as ata0
> and ata1.

I am certain there is a total of one (1) ata controllers in the box; I put
it in there myself. It does NOT appear as ata0 and ata1, it appears as
ata2 and ata3. Like I said before, there is no onboard ata controller.

Note how the one and only ide disk that this box boots from is ad4:
Note how the ata driver bogusly claims there are controllers at ata0 &
ata1 and that the irqs overlap with previously probed devices:

...
atapci0: <Promise PDC20246 UDMA33 controller>
 port 0xd400-0xd41f,0xd804-0xd807,0xe000-0xe007,0xe404-0xe407,0xe800-0xe807
 irq 14 at device 5.0 on pci0
ata2: at 0xe800 on atapci0
ata3: at 0xe000 on atapci0
ahc1: <Adaptec 2940 Ultra SCSI adapter> port 0xd000-0xd0ff mem 0xfbfcf000-0xfbfcffff irq 15 at device 6.0 on pci0
aic7880: Ultra Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 16/253 SCBs
...
ata0 at port 0x3f6,0x1f0-0x1f7 irq 14 on isa0
ata1 at port 0x376,0x170-0x177 irq 15 on isa0
...
ad4: 8223MB <ST38410A> [16708/16/63] at ata2-master UDMA33
Waiting 3 seconds for SCSI devices to settle
da0 at ahc1 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
da0: <MAXTOR 7213-SCSI 7442> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-CCS device
da0: 3.300MB/s transfers
da0: 202MB (415600 512 byte sectors: 64H 32S/T 202C)
SMP: AP CPU #1 Launched!
Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad4s1a


ps. I am only editting out non-relevent stuff from the above dmesg.boot
file. I can send the entire thing if requested.

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        Andy Farkas
    System Administrator
   Speednet Communications
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