From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: SATA in Target Mode Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 11:48:55 -0400 Message-ID: <4BF40867.9000606@garzik.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail-gw0-f46.google.com ([74.125.83.46]:53009 "EHLO mail-gw0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753178Ab0ESPtC (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 May 2010 11:49:02 -0400 Received: by gwaa20 with SMTP id a20so1870962gwa.19 for ; Wed, 19 May 2010 08:48:59 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Jayaraman Thiruvady Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org On 05/19/2010 02:12 AM, Jayaraman Thiruvady wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to make vdisk ( file disk ) to emulate as a SATA > drive. To do so, i thought of making a SATA port to target mode and > cross wire it with another SATA port ( initiator) and by mapping the > SATA target mode port with vdisk, the SATA initiator must detect the > vdisk as some SATA device to perform further. Is such scenario doable? > > Is the place where i can find more details on how much scenario is > achievable and the details Marvell SATA support as target mode in > kernel-tree and its info supported chipsets?. Unfortunately, nobody's really worked on it, as far as I know. It would be great to see SATA target support, though. Jeff