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12-10 Intel® 460GX Chipset Software Developer’s Manual
12.3.2 BMISx–Bus Master IDE Status Register (I/O)
Address Offset: Primary Channel–Base + 02h; Secondary Channel–Base + 0Ah
Default Value: 00h
Attribute: Read/Write Clear
This register provides status information about the IDE device and state of the IDE DMA transfer.
Bit Description
7:4 Reserved.
3 Bus Master Read/Write Control (RWCON). 0=Reads; 1=Writes. This bit must NOT be changed
when the bus master Function is active.
While a synchronous DMA transfer is in progress, this bit will be READ ONLY. The bit will return to
read/write once the synchronous DMA transfer has been completed or halted.
2:1 Reserved.
0 Start/Stop Bus Master (SSBM). 1=Start; 0=Stop. When this bit is set to 1, bus master operation
starts. The controller transfers data between the IDE device and memory only while this bit is set.
Master operation can be stopped by writing a 0 to this bit. This results in all state information being
lost (i.e. master mode operation cannot be stopped and then resumed).
If this bit is set to 0 while bus master operation is still active (i.e. Bit 0=1 in the Bus Master IDE Status
Register for that IDE channel) and the drive has not yet finished its data transfer (bit 2=0 in the
channel’s Bus Master IDE Status Register), the bus master command is aborted and data
transferred from the drive may be discarded by the IFB rather than being written to system memory.
This bit is intended to be set to 0 after the data transfer is completed, as indicated by either bit 0 or
bit 2 being set in the IDE Channel’s Bus Master IDE Status Register.
Bit Description
7 Reserved. This bit is hardwired to 0.
6 Drive 1 DMA Capable (DMA1CAP)–R/W. 1=Drive 1 is capable of DMA transfers. This bit is a
software controlled status bit that indicates IDE DMA device capability and does not affect
hardware operation.
5 Drive 0 DMA Capable (DMA0CAP)–R/W. 1=Drive 0 is capable of DMA transfers. This bit is a
software controlled status bit that indicates IDE DMA device capability and does not affect
hardware operation.
4:3 Reserved.
2 IDE Interrupt Status (IDEINTS)–R/WC. This bit, when set to a 1, indicates when an IDE device
has asserted its interrupt line. When bit 2=1, all read data from the IDE device has been
transferred to main memory and all write data has been transferred to the IDE device. Software
sets this bit to a 0 by writing a 1 to it. IRQ14 is used for the primary channel and IRQ15 is used
for the secondary channel. Note that, if the interrupt status bit is set to a 0 by writing a 1 to this
bit while the interrupt line is still at the active level, this bit remains 0 until another assertion edge
is detected on the interrupt line.
1 IDE DMA Error–R/WC. This bit is set to 1 when the IFB encounters a target abort or master
abort while transferring data on the PCI Bus. Software sets this bit to a 0 by writing a 1 to it.
0 Bus Master IDE Active (BMIDEA)–RO. The IFB sets this bit to 1 when bit 0 in the BMICx
Register is set to 1. The IFB sets this bit to 0 when the last transfer for a region is performed
(where EOT for that region is set in the region descriptor). The IFB also sets this bit to 0 when
bit 0 of the BMICx Register is set to 0. When this bit is read as a zero, all data transferred from
the drive during the previous bus master command is visible in system memory, unless the bus
master command was aborted.