Re: CVS Update: 2.3 (branch: trunk)

[Roman Z. <zi...@li...>]

Hi,

On Mon, 5 Nov 2001, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:

> OK. But we still disable the IRQ during probing, right?

Yes.

> I still remember the hard hacking that lead to that change: some Western
> Digital Caviar drives didn't honour the ATA disable IRQ bit, so they caused an
> interrupt deadlock if you probed for them on Amiga with the IDE interrupt
> enabled. The problem didn't show up on PC because they had no shared
> interrupts, while on A4000 the IDE interrupt is shared with Zorro Ethernet,
> which was still enabled.

They have shared interrupts now too, but their interrupt is automatically
acknowledged.

bye, Roman