body interested in fixing this problem was able to reliably reproduce it. Now it changed - with the help from Sebastian Frei (CC'ed) I was able to trigger the PIO path. Thus, I was also able to test and debug it. There are 4 cases when PIO is used in dc395x - data-in / -out with and without scatter-gather. I was able to reproduce and test only data-in with and without SG. So, the data-out path is still untested, but it is also somewhat simpler than the data-in. Fredrik Roubert (also CC'ed) also had PIO triggering on his system, and in his case it was data-out without SG. It would be great if he could test the attached patch on his system, but even if he cannot, I would still request to apply the patch and just wait if anybody cries... Implementation: I put 2 new functions in scsi_lib.c and their declarations in scsi_cmnd.h. I exported them without _GPL, although, I don't feel strongly about that - not many drivers are likely to use them. But there is at least one more - I want to use them in tmscsim.c. Whether these are the right files for the functions and their declarations - not sure either. Actually, they are not scsi-specific, so, might go somewhere around other scattergather magic? They are not platform specific either, and most SG functions are defined under arch/*/... As these issues were discussed previously there were some more routines suggested to manipulate scattergather buffers, I think, some of them were needed around crypto code... So, might be a common place reasonable, like lib/scattergather.c? I am open here. Signed-off-by: James Bottomley  Œ’ “ x