> Anyway, to cut a long story short, when a command goes wrong, the get
> sense packet command does not seem to generate an end of event
> interrupt and as a result the command times out (after 60 seconds in
> my driver) but the correct sense key is then returned on a read of the
> Data register.

Could be the case for a weird device.

> My question is whether this (ie sense times out but still returns the
> right result) is this behaviour you would expect in a "normal" ATAPI
> device?

No. I would take it as indication of an IRQ delivery problem, or given
the device you have perhaps an expectation that request sense must be
issued as a polling command with nIEN.
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