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From: "Luciano A. Stertz" <luciano@tteng.com.br>
To: "Luciano A. Stertz" <luciano@tteng.com.br>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: T10/04-262 ATA pass thru - patch.
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 16:38:50 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <415B0F4A.5040104@tteng.com.br> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <415B0D9A.5080204@tteng.com.br>

Luciano A. Stertz wrote:
> 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.
>>
>> The ioctls John added are merely for compatibility with existing IDE 
>> utilities.
> 
>     Hmm, didn't know that. Do you mean that I can already send ATA 
> commands to SATA devices? Where can I find information about these ioctls?
	Ok, I guess now I got it. It was already possible to create and send 
CDB, Andy's patch will 'decode' it so that it can be an ATA command.

> 
>     Thanks again,
>     Luciano
> 


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  reply	other threads:[~2004-09-29 19:34 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 [this message]
2004-09-29 18:55         ` John W. Linville
2004-10-05 18:53     ` Luciano A. Stertz
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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