On Tue, 28 Nov 2006 09:00:44 -0500 Mark Lord <mlord@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Alan, I confess that I really don't understand this example (below). > Can you try again, with something concrete enough for a rusty old > IDE hacker to understand? The asynchronocity isn't at the IDE level - its at the PCI bus level. The IRQ path between a PCI card and the CPU is not synchronous to I/O cycles. Alan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html