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From: Alan <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Thinus Viljoen <thinus.viljoen@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Disabling SATA hardware interrupts
Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2006 14:47:07 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061204144707.2b0787f7@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c70dbe410612040534y6a357064m7a0d28d3d40fa4ab@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, 4 Dec 2006 15:34:09 +0200
"Thinus Viljoen" <thinus.viljoen@gmail.com> wrote:

> How do I go about setting/clearing this nIEN bit from my own module?
> Open a handle to /dev/sda and calling some or other IOCTL, perhaps? (
> I haven't accessed the HDD on this low level before, so I would
> appreciate some details, or perhaps a small example).

The ATA layer manages nIEN per command itself so you'll need to do a
rework of parts of the ATA layer. Alternatively you could just make sure
you've flushed all outstanding I/O before doing any realtime work.


      reply	other threads:[~2006-12-04 14:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-12-04 11:08 Disabling SATA hardware interrupts Thinus Viljoen
2006-12-04 12:03 ` Alan
2006-12-04 13:34   ` Thinus Viljoen
2006-12-04 14:47     ` Alan [this message]

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