From: Martin Dalecki <dalecki@evision-ventures.com>
To: Garet Cammer <arcolin@arcoide.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Need IDE Taskfile Access
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 16:38:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D0F45E7.3050605@evision-ventures.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 004701c216cf$efd1ca60$8201a8c0@arcoi0s17j2t0x
Użytkownik Garet Cammer napisał:
> For some time now we have been writing user applications that send ATAPI
> commands to the IDE bus to initialize and configure our hardware RAID 1
> controllers. This has been working well, thanks to Andre's patch that
> gave us taskfile access through the ioctl API. We were counting on it to
> be a permanent part of the 2.5/2.6 kernel, since there is a lot of
> hardware in the field using these apps.
> Imagine our surprise when we discovered that taskfile access was being
> abandoned completely!
> Although we understand that the kernel may need to filter some commands,
> why can't applications access at least the Smart commands? Help!
> Regards,
> Garet Cammer
> Software Development
> Arco Computer Products
> (954) 925-2688
ATAPI is no problem. You can use the whole SCSI layer on top of
ide-scsi.
next parent reply other threads:[~2002-06-18 14:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <004701c216cf$efd1ca60$8201a8c0@arcoi0s17j2t0x>
2002-06-18 14:38 ` Martin Dalecki [this message]
2002-06-18 16:22 ` Need IDE Taskfile Access Andre Hedrick
2002-06-18 19:32 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2002-06-19 7:54 ` Martin Dalecki
2002-06-19 22:43 ` Scott Tillman
2002-06-19 22:52 ` Dave Jones
2002-06-20 16:36 ` Scott Tillman
2002-06-20 6:24 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-06-21 22:40 ` Alan Cox
2002-06-21 23:09 ` Andries Brouwer
2002-06-21 23:45 ` Alan Cox
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