From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>
Cc: Vitaliyi <imgrey@gmail.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: libata extension
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2007 13:31:08 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070311133108.7dca0e7b@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45F3B829.2010503@shaw.ca>
> I believe you should be able to do this by sending ATA pass-through SCSI
> commands into the device using SG_IO, without any kernel changes. It's
> really the mechanism that's meant for this..
It should work, but Mark Lord reported some problems with READ_LONG on
PIIX/ICH intel chipsets. I don't know if he ever resolved them but if not
I have a patch that ought to.
Alan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-11 12:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <fa.tUT8ZqaAp2RZveBFqwzUhq3UYGI@ifi.uio.no>
2007-03-11 8:04 ` Robert Hancock
2007-03-11 13:31 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2007-03-11 7:22 Vitaliyi
2007-03-11 14:09 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2007-03-12 14:47 ` Mark Lord
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