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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: libata PATA support - work items?
Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2005 18:32:17 -0500
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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