I read it... saved it for later reply, even ;-)
(I'm the author of libata, a new ATA driver)
> I posted to this list to begin with because I found nowhere else to take 
> the issue.  It seems impossible to determine who's supposed to be 
> maintaining the IDE driver these days.
Bart is:  Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl>
Though Vojtech Pavlik is typically considered maintainer of the Via IDE 
driver.
	Jeff
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