IDE driver in polling mode

[Michael]

I see.
The problem is I am constrained to 2.6.14 kernel.
Is it still correct to say it is P-ATA compatible?

On 4/11/07, Alan Cox <alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> 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
>