From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269922AbUJMX0w (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Oct 2004 19:26:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269919AbUJMX0w (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Oct 2004 19:26:52 -0400 Received: from cpu1185.adsl.bellglobal.com ([207.236.110.166]:48325 "EHLO mail.rtr.ca") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269917AbUJMXZx (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Oct 2004 19:25:53 -0400 Message-ID: <416DB912.7040805@rtr.ca> Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 19:24:02 -0400 From: Mark Lord User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 X-Accept-Language: en, en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeff Garzik Cc: Mark Lord , Linux Kernel , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] QStor SATA/RAID driver for 2.6.9-rc3 References: <4161A06D.8010601@rtr.ca> <4165B233.9080405@rtr.ca> <416D8A4E.5030106@pobox.com> <416DA951.2090104@rtr.ca> <416DAF1A.2040204@pobox.com> In-Reply-To: <416DAF1A.2040204@pobox.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Jeff Garzik wrote: > Fine with me but you'll need more than just the identify data, if you > wanna do stuff like support MODE SELECT/SENSE. QStor has no need for MODE_SELECT, and the current implementation of MODE_SENSE in libata-scsi appears to use only the IDENTIFY data. The READ_CAPACITY emulation in libata-scsi currently uses dev->n_sectors, but that could be changed to recalculate it from the IDENTIFY words. So.. okay in concept? -- Mark Lord (hdparm keeper & the original "Linux IDE Guy")