On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 18:15 +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > > This is I guess related to the interrupts being disabled during pio > > transfer (I can't use unmaskirq btw). > Silly question - but why not ? It just doesn't work :) Transfers stall and here is the kind of message I get: hdb: lost interrupt hdb: status error: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest } ide: failed opcode was: unknown hdb: drive not ready for command hdb: status timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy } ide: failed opcode was: unknown hdb: drive not ready for command -- Maxime