[temp t13] Re: Are devices allowed to go busy on their own?

[Hale Landis]

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Curtis Stevens asked:
>What section in ATA/ATAPI6 says that you 
>shall not asynchronously set the BSY bit? 

I am sure there is no such direct statement. However, there is also
no statement that says a device is allow to asynchronously set BSY=1
and there is nothing in the ATA tradition that indicates this sort of
activity is permitted. If permitted it would complete destroy the
concept of a state based interface and make host determination of
device status/state impossible.


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