system hangs with all-generic-ide & irqpoll

[Alan]

> I was hoping that the latest release of the kernel (2.6.19-1.2985) would 
> detect the ide components without using the "all-generic-ide" & "irqpoll"
> options, but alas, no - is this something for bugzilla?

Depends what the chip in question is for the all-generic-ide bit, for the
irqpoll part its almost certainly between you and your BIOS vendor and
nothing to do with the irq code.