ide disk driver

["Bahadir Balban" <bilgehan.balban@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I am new to ide and I need to write a simple driver for a compact
flash interface (which uses ide command set). I need to do this
because the interface is fairly buggy and incomplete, and the linux
ide disk driver available doesn't work with it.

I couldn't figure out where to start. If I use libata functions in
drivers/scsi directory, is that relevant? I thought ata was almost
synonymous with ide, then why do all files in drivers/ide have no
relation to libata?

Also ldd3 explains block device api, but not how requests are
executed. How do I glue a block driver request for execution over the
ide interface?


Many thanks,
Bahadir

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