IDE driver in polling mode

Alan Cox alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Wed Apr 11 18:47:02 EST 2007


On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 10:39:58 +0200
Michael <michaelzwrk at gmail.com> wrote:

> Doesn't libata have to do with SCSI devices? I'm afraid it wouldn't
> work with CF, which is P-ATA compatible.

libata drives PATA and SATA devices, including CF.

> Wouldn't it work just to call ide_intr() explicitly from some polling
> function, as Mark suggested?

No. See the ATA spec - polling command issue is subtly different.

Alan



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