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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: PATA drivers in libata?
Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 17:01:51 -0500
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Mark Hahn wrote:
>>* With ATA passthru (in libata-dev currently), libata supports SMART and 
>>the HDIO_CMD/HDIO_TASK generalized ioctls.  Should I care about 
>>supporting other ioctls?
> 
> 
> is there some other mechanism to en/disable write caching?

Besides the SG_IO | HDIO_DRIVE_CMD | HDIO_DRIVE_TASK | 
HDIO_DRIVE_TASKFILE ioctls?  Nope.

	Jeff