Re: ata_sff_drain_fifo

[Alan Cox]

> so I guess when status is 0xD0, ATA_DRQ is not set but ATA_BUSY is.
> It would explain why in my case it doesn't drain anything before trying to reset.
> 
> Would it be of any interest to drain the fifo also when the ATA_BUSY flag is on, not only the ATA_DRQ ?

If the drive has the busy flag set it is busy, all we can do is wait for
it and if that fails try to reset it. The FIFO drain handles a specific
case where the two ends disagree about the amount of data expected, and
often lets us avoid a reset.

Alan
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