Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 18 Dec 1999 15:43:59 -0500 | From | Mark Lord <> | Subject | Re: More on the IDE multiwrite problem |
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Jes Sorensen wrote: ... > Isn't there a way to disable the interrupt in the IDE controller's > registers? Using disable_irq is nasty since many IDE controllers, in > particular on non x86, run with shared interrupts.
There is no standard way to do it. Each IDE chip does it's own thing for interrupt enable/disable. There is a way to do it at the drive, but the interrupt is supposed to be enabled when we issue the command, or else we might miss it later. -- Mark Lord Real-Time Remedies Inc. mlord@pobox.com
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