On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 02:11:12PM -0400, Jesus Molina wrote:
> Is there any way to avoid that withou involving the host kernel?
No.
> Right now I am just using another interrupt to access the IDE, but I
> wonder if there is a better way.
You need locking between the two to prevent both accessing the drive at
the same time.
> Is there any way that the ebsa285 could know that the hard disk is in
> use?
Not for sure. You need locking.
> I want the access to the hard disk from the ebsa285 to the IDE will
> be completely transparent to the host, even if the access is really
> slow.
You need locking. You can't get around it.
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