From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750883AbVHQGZL (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Aug 2005 02:25:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750905AbVHQGZL (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Aug 2005 02:25:11 -0400 Received: from pythagoras.zen.co.uk ([212.23.3.140]:40633 "EHLO pythagoras.zen.co.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750883AbVHQGZK (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Aug 2005 02:25:10 -0400 Message-ID: <4302D7D9.1020802@dresco.co.uk> Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 07:23:21 +0100 From: Jon Escombe User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jens Axboe CC: Alejandro Bonilla Beeche , linux-kernel , hdaps devel , yani.ioannou@gmail.com Subject: Re: [Hdaps-devel] Re: HDAPS, Need to park the head for real References: <1124205914.4855.14.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20050816200708.GE3425@suse.de> <1124234133.4855.73.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20050817055310.GG3425@suse.de> In-Reply-To: <20050817055310.GG3425@suse.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Hops: 1 X-Originating-Pythagoras-IP: [82.68.23.174] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >>>On Tue, Aug 16 2005, Alejandro Bonilla Beeche wrote: >>>If I were in your position, I would just implement this for ide (pata, >>>not sata) right now, since that is what you need to support (or do some >>>of these notebooks come with sata?). So it follows that you add an ide >>> >>> >>Some notebooks are coming up with a Sata controller I think, but is >>still and IDE drive. I think some T43's come with that. >> >>But, I will ask or check again later if we ever need this feature for >>SATA. >> >> I can confirm that T43's are using libata. I've tweaked the passthrough code to return the status registers (so we can tell whether the disk is parking sucessfully) http://groups.google.co.uk/group/fa.linux.kernel/browse_frm/thread/bd6b65dfcd1a3227 Regards, Jon. ______________________________________________________________ Email via Mailtraq4Free from Enstar (www.mailtraqdirect.co.uk)