Legacy memstick support + FTL questions

[Maxim Levitsky]

On Tue, 2010-02-16 at 18:26 -0800, Alex Dubov wrote: 
> > I  mean when controller reads the 'int status' it does
> > send a TPC?
> > (I am sure that it does)
> > 
> > However mine can't do that and int status is read normally
> > (yay...)
> > 
> 
> There are two things to know:
> 1. In serial mode, some controllers issue GET_INT TPC automatically
> after each command, but only if certain configuration bit is set.
> 
> 2. In parallel mode, the meaningful bits of the interrupt register
> are exposed on the DIO pins of the media at the end of command execution
> and can be latched by the controller (this is a suggested behavior).
> 
> If you want to write a generic legacy MS support, you must take into
> account that this behavior is not there for granted.
> 

Thank you very very much.
This clears this issue for good.

Best regards,
Maxim Levitsky