> As previously discussed, the possible issue with this patch is: > Some ATA/ATAPI devices might be unhappy if the STATUS register > is read during data transfer (not sure if this is true or not). > (Patch 5/8 doesn't have such issue.) Some older intel eats your disk if you do that. Neither of these approaches quite work. Much as I dislike the "old IDE" disable/enable irq approach it does look like that is the only safe answer for some controllers. 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
