diff --git a/drivers/ide/cs5536.c b/drivers/ide/cs5536.c
index 353a35bbba636dcd1d3a22e1dd275efc7894319e..0332a95eefd4e479e2ce111d8aa20cc071495705 100644
--- a/drivers/ide/cs5536.c
+++ b/drivers/ide/cs5536.c
@@ -236,6 +236,7 @@ static const struct ide_dma_ops cs5536_dma_ops = {
 	.dma_test_irq		= ide_dma_test_irq,
 	.dma_lost_irq		= ide_dma_lost_irq,
 	.dma_timer_expiry	= ide_dma_sff_timer_expiry,
+	.dma_sff_read_status	= ide_dma_sff_read_status,
 };
 
 static const struct ide_port_info cs5536_info = {
diff --git a/drivers/ide/hpt366.c b/drivers/ide/hpt366.c
index a0eb87f59134141340181afe21c12d615d0a4484..0feb66c720e1bdb945bc922a6027f213bdcb2259 100644
--- a/drivers/ide/hpt366.c
+++ b/drivers/ide/hpt366.c
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
  * Portions Copyright (C) 2001	        Sun Microsystems, Inc.
  * Portions Copyright (C) 2003		Red Hat Inc
  * Portions Copyright (C) 2007		Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
- * Portions Copyright (C) 2005-2008	MontaVista Software, Inc.
+ * Portions Copyright (C) 2005-2009	MontaVista Software, Inc.
  *
  * Thanks to HighPoint Technologies for their assistance, and hardware.
  * Special Thanks to Jon Burchmore in SanDiego for the deep pockets, his
@@ -114,6 +114,8 @@
  *   the register setting lists into the table indexed by the clock selected
  * - set the correct hwif->ultra_mask for each individual chip
  * - add Ultra and MW DMA mode filtering for the HPT37[24] based SATA cards
+ * - stop resetting HPT370's state machine before each DMA transfer as that has
+ *   caused more harm than good
  *	Sergei Shtylyov, <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com> or <source@mvista.com>
  */
 
@@ -133,7 +135,7 @@
 #define DRV_NAME "hpt366"
 
 /* various tuning parameters */
-#define HPT_RESET_STATE_ENGINE
+#undef	HPT_RESET_STATE_ENGINE
 #undef	HPT_DELAY_INTERRUPT
 
 static const char *quirk_drives[] = {
@@ -808,7 +810,7 @@ static void hpt370_irq_timeout(ide_drive_t *drive)
 	/* get DMA command mode */
 	dma_cmd = inb(hwif->dma_base + ATA_DMA_CMD);
 	/* stop DMA */
-	outb(dma_cmd & ~0x1, hwif->dma_base + ATA_DMA_CMD);
+	outb(dma_cmd & ~ATA_DMA_START, hwif->dma_base + ATA_DMA_CMD);
 	hpt370_clear_engine(drive);
 }
 
@@ -825,11 +827,11 @@ static int hpt370_dma_end(ide_drive_t *drive)
 	ide_hwif_t *hwif	= drive->hwif;
 	u8  dma_stat		= inb(hwif->dma_base + ATA_DMA_STATUS);
 
-	if (dma_stat & 0x01) {
+	if (dma_stat & ATA_DMA_ACTIVE) {
 		/* wait a little */
 		udelay(20);
 		dma_stat = inb(hwif->dma_base + ATA_DMA_STATUS);
-		if (dma_stat & 0x01)
+		if (dma_stat & ATA_DMA_ACTIVE)
 			hpt370_irq_timeout(drive);
 	}
 	return ide_dma_end(drive);
@@ -851,7 +853,7 @@ static int hpt374_dma_test_irq(ide_drive_t *drive)
 
 	dma_stat = inb(hwif->dma_base + ATA_DMA_STATUS);
 	/* return 1 if INTR asserted */
-	if (dma_stat & 4)
+	if (dma_stat & ATA_DMA_INTR)
 		return 1;
 
 	return 0;
diff --git a/drivers/ide/ide-io.c b/drivers/ide/ide-io.c
index 2ae02b8d7f8e06e7551f352f0336ea8089db97ad..35dc38d3b2c58d2f40e3a299f5b6c0832f88da82 100644
--- a/drivers/ide/ide-io.c
+++ b/drivers/ide/ide-io.c
@@ -102,11 +102,14 @@ void ide_complete_cmd(ide_drive_t *drive, struct ide_cmd *cmd, u8 stat, u8 err)
 			drive->dev_flags |= IDE_DFLAG_PARKED;
 	}
 
-	if (rq && rq->cmd_type == REQ_TYPE_ATA_TASKFILE)
-		memcpy(rq->special, cmd, sizeof(*cmd));
+	if (rq && rq->cmd_type == REQ_TYPE_ATA_TASKFILE) {
+		struct ide_cmd *orig_cmd = rq->special;
 
-	if (cmd->tf_flags & IDE_TFLAG_DYN)
-		kfree(cmd);
+		if (cmd->tf_flags & IDE_TFLAG_DYN)
+			kfree(orig_cmd);
+		else
+			memcpy(orig_cmd, cmd, sizeof(*cmd));
+	}
 }
 
 /* obsolete, blk_rq_bytes() should be used instead */
diff --git a/drivers/ide/pmac.c b/drivers/ide/pmac.c
index 052b9bf1f8fb69bd14a2c0491a2dd5e920cca540..f76e4e6b408f018483c0761c0efe8cdadda46975 100644
--- a/drivers/ide/pmac.c
+++ b/drivers/ide/pmac.c
@@ -1682,7 +1682,7 @@ static int __devinit pmac_ide_init_dma(ide_hwif_t *hwif,
 	 * The +2 is +1 for the stop command and +1 to allow for
 	 * aligning the start address to a multiple of 16 bytes.
 	 */
-	pmif->dma_table_cpu = (struct dbdma_cmd*)pci_alloc_consistent(
+	pmif->dma_table_cpu = pci_alloc_consistent(
 		dev,
 		(MAX_DCMDS + 2) * sizeof(struct dbdma_cmd),
 		&hwif->dmatable_dma);