Re: More on the IDE multiwrite problem

Mark Lord (mlord@pobox.com)
Sat, 18 Dec 1999 15:43:59 -0500

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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