Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 18:20:34 -0600
From: Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>
Subject: Re: Help Needed Reading / Poling the ATA Status Register
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To: "frank.priest@gmail.com" <frank.priest@gmail.com>
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frank.priest@gmail.com wrote:
> I am currently writing some code to send some ATA commands directly to
> the drive using ioctl and SG_IO which seems to work fine. However I
> also need to read the ATA status register values in real time which I
> am unsure how to do.
> 
> I have seen in the libata developers guide the following functions to
> read the status and alternative status registers:-
> 
> u8  (*check_status)(struct ata_port *ap);
> u8  (*check_altstatus)(struct ata_port *ap);
> u8  (*check_err)(struct ata_port *ap);
> 
> However I have no idea how to access these functions directly or even
> if this is the best way to go about it. Any help at all would be much
> appreciated.

First question is why you need to poll the status register, since quite 
likely there is a better solution to whatever that reason is..
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