* UPDATE 9/18/2006 6PM: I am downloading a Kernel update in Dapper right now, hopefully it contains the JMicron patch.

Here is a new update on the continuing struggle to get Linux running on an Intel P965 motherboard with the JMicron PATA controller.

There have been two more patches commited to fix the problem. The main patch has been added to Edgy Eft which should allow the user to access their PATA drives connected to the JMicron chip. A similar patch has also been applied to the Dapper Kernel so it should now be possible to create a custom Ubuntu install cd with the new updated Dapper cd and install from there.

Hopefully this also means that Ubuntu will have support out of the box with the next release.