Re: libata PATA support - work items?

["Albert Lee" <albertcc@tw.ibm.com>]

For the 1st item,
- add PATA device errata/blacklist info
Is there any detail or draft design idea available?

For
- C/H/S addressing.
 I've an old Segate drive which support CHS-only at hand.
Maybe I can work on it first.

  BTW, what items are required for the PATA lowlevel driver like pdc2027x
to move out of the libata-dev tree to production tree? Do we have to finish all items?


Albert

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeff Garzik" <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: "Albert Lee" <albertcc@tw.ibm.com>
Cc: "Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz" <bzolnier@gmail.com>; "IDE Linux" <linux-ide@vger.kernel.org>; "Doug Maxey" <dwm@maxeymade.com>;
"Alan Cox" <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2005 7:32 AM
Subject: Re: libata PATA support - work items?


> Albert Lee wrote:
> > The following PATA work items were previously collected from the mailing list:
> >     1. ATAPI
> >        1.1 possibly avoid REPORT LUNS for ATAPI devices
> >        1.2 when check condition occurs, automatically request sense inside
> >             driver, and put that data into the sense buffer.
> >        1.3 make INQUIRY report SCSI version MMC-3 (or later...)
> >        1.4 support strange sector sizes
> >     2. C/H/S addressing; libata currently hardcoded to use LBA
> >     3. add PATA device errata/blacklist info
> >    (Any missing items?)
> >
> > Need your advice, thanks.
>
> Yes, this seems like an accurate list to me.
>
> I would probably prioritize #3 as the most important, followed by C/H/S
> support.
>
> Jeff
>
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