> Indeed, which is why I suspect that a global change to handle this > controller may not be a good idea. Overriding sff_exec_command for this > driver to not do the altstatus read (just wait 600ns, maybe) might be > the best solution for now. Old IDE does 400nS and no read. We know that works. At least for all the standard PATA controllers. Thats an incredibly strong argument for doing command issue that way for non MMIO controllers. The MMIO case is muddy and probably simply does not matter because no sane hardware implementation is not going to handle it internally. 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