Re: [patch] My AMD IDE driver, v2.7

Vojtech Pavlik (vojtech@suse.cz)
Fri, 15 Mar 2002 12:13:52 +0100


On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 02:02:11PM +0000, Pavel Machek wrote:

> > You may happen to have the numbers, though - that should be enough.
> >
> > Btw, I have a CMD640B based PCI card lying around here, but never
> > managed to get it generate any interrupts, though the rest seems to be
> > working.
>
> Attach it to the timer interrupt -- that should do it for testing. Simplest
> way is to make ide timeouts HZ/100 and killing "lost interrupt" msg ;-).

Well, it seems like we'll have to something like this anyway. Some chips
sometimes forget to assert the IRQ after a transfer due to HW bugs, and
some PIIX3s are reported to do it quite often.

-- 
Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs
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