From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262795AbVD2Pbz (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Apr 2005 11:31:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262798AbVD2Pbz (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Apr 2005 11:31:55 -0400 Received: from clock-tower.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:56790 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262795AbVD2Pbx (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Apr 2005 11:31:53 -0400 Subject: Re: ATA port addresses From: Alan Cox To: john doe Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <20050429150011.62598.qmail@web60211.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20050429150011.62598.qmail@web60211.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <1114788639.18330.293.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 (1.4.6-2) Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 16:30:40 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Gwe, 2005-04-29 at 16:00, john doe wrote: > What I need to know is the port address space for the > ATA device. Specifically the port address space of > the command bloc registers. Its architecture and board dependent. Linux will let you issue IDE taskfile command blocks via ioctls so you can avoid poking the hardware (and poking the hardware will upset the ide driver..)