Issuing a vendor specific ATA cmd on SATA Disk via ATA Pass Thru

["sam song" <sam_song@usish.com>]

Hi,

I am convinced that the SATA Disk does support one vendor specific ATA
command and got the whole bus trace via Trainer.
However, I cannot implement that in the real cases with either HBA or SATA
Controller like ICH5/7 via ATA Pass Thru.
So I wonder whether there is one possible setup including HW and SW
supporting the ATA command via ATA Pass directly and no need to understand
the command meaning itself.

Here is one result I got.

[<unknown opcode>: 85 0b 06 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 e0 fd 00 ]
  scsi_status=0x2, host_status=0x0, driver_status=0x8
  info=0x1  duration=270111 milliseconds
  status=0x2: sense_key=0x7 asc=0x1 ascq=0x0

The command can execute successfully partly but not finally.

HW and Kernel info: 

00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801EB (ICH5) SATA Controller (rev
02)
The kernel is Linux- 2.6.9-34.EL.

Highly appreciate your input,

Sam Song