printk(KERN_ERR "ide-scsi: CoD != 0 in idescsi_pc_intr\n");
                return ide_do_reset (drive);
        }
-       if (ireason & IO) {
+       if (((ireason & IO) == IO) == !!(pc->flags & PC_FLAG_WRITING)) {
+               /* Hopefully, we will never get here */
+               printk(KERN_ERR "%s: We wanted to %s, but the device wants us "
+                               "to %s!\n", drive->name,
+                               (ireason & IO) ? "Write" : "Read",
+                               (ireason & IO) ? "Read" : "Write");
+               return ide_do_reset(drive);
+       }
+       if (!(pc->flags & PC_FLAG_WRITING)) {
                temp = pc->xferred + bcount;
                if (temp > pc->req_xfer) {
                        if (temp > pc->buf_size) {
                                        "- discarding data\n");
                                temp = pc->buf_size - pc->xferred;
                                if (temp) {
-                                       pc->flags &= ~PC_FLAG_WRITING;
                                        if (pc->sg)
                                                idescsi_input_buffers(drive, pc,
                                                                        temp);
                        printk (KERN_NOTICE "ide-scsi: The scsi wants to send us more data than expected - allowing transfer\n");
 #endif /* IDESCSI_DEBUG_LOG */
                }
-       }
-       if (ireason & IO) {
-               pc->flags &= ~PC_FLAG_WRITING;
                if (pc->sg)
                        idescsi_input_buffers(drive, pc, bcount);
                else
                        hwif->input_data(drive, NULL, pc->cur_pos, bcount);
        } else {
-               pc->flags |= PC_FLAG_WRITING;
                if (pc->sg)
                        idescsi_output_buffers(drive, pc, bcount);
                else
 
        memset (pc->c, 0, 12);
        pc->flags = 0;
+       if (cmd->sc_data_direction == DMA_TO_DEVICE)
+               pc->flags |= PC_FLAG_WRITING;
        pc->rq = rq;
        memcpy (pc->c, cmd->cmnd, cmd->cmd_len);
        pc->buf = NULL;