> I think that PIO transfers only have to be done with interrupts disabled > on really old, evil controllers (without unmask set). I don't think > libata ever disables interrupts during transfers(?) Currently libata PIO is mostly done in the IRQ path. Albert Lee was doing some work on that but its actually very hard to fix without doing polled PIO. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-serial" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html