From: "Luciano A. Stertz" <luciano@tteng.com.br>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, Andy Warner <andyw@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: T10/04-262 ATA pass thru - patch.
Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2004 15:53:23 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4162EDA3.1030202@tteng.com.br> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <415AFFBB.8090503@pobox.com>
Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Luciano A. Stertz wrote:
>
>>
>> Just trying to understand the SATA SMART problem as a whole. With
>> your patch, it's possible to send ATA commands that are encapsulated
>> in CDBs, right? If so, to enable sending direct ATA commands to a SATA
>> device, one has to create a ioctl that receives the command and
>> creates a CDB from it, as John Linville did a few weeks ago. This way
>> a user-space application (e.g. smartmontools) can use this ioctl to
>> send ATA commands. Am I right?
>
>
> No. SCSI "send CDB" ioctls have existed for years.
Am I supposed to be able to run any ATA command from user-space now,
then? Let's say I want to run a IDENTIFY DEVICE, how can I do that? I
tried SG_IO, but sg_allow_access blocks my request since the 'ATA_16'
command isn't recognized yet. Is there another way?
Thanks again,
Luciano
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-05 18:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-28 5:16 T10/04-262 ATA pass thru - patch Andy Warner
2004-09-28 5:39 ` Andy Warner
2004-09-29 16:49 ` John W. Linville
2004-09-29 18:19 ` Andy Warner
2004-09-29 17:12 ` John W. Linville
2004-09-29 20:44 ` Andy Warner
2004-09-29 18:29 ` Luciano A. Stertz
2004-09-29 17:20 ` John W. Linville
2004-09-29 18:32 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-09-29 19:31 ` Luciano A. Stertz
2004-09-29 19:38 ` Luciano A. Stertz
2004-09-29 18:55 ` John W. Linville
2004-10-05 18:53 ` Luciano A. Stertz [this message]
2004-10-05 19:06 ` Andy Warner
2004-10-05 22:19 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-05 22:37 ` Andy Warner
2004-10-05 22:41 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-06 6:04 ` Jens Axboe
2004-10-07 3:34 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-06 12:21 ` Luciano A. Stertz
2004-09-30 18:13 ` [patch libata-2.6] libata: SMART support via ATA pass-thru John W. Linville
2004-09-30 19:52 ` Jeff Garzik
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