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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: VIA SATAPI status
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 17:47:17 -0500
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gp wrote:
> Has anyone been able to run the sata_via driver with a SATAPI device?


In theory, nothing should be needed except to edit include/linux/libata.h:

#undef ATA_ENABLE_ATAPI         /* define to enable ATAPI support */

may also need this:
#undef ATAPI_ENABLE_DMADIR      /* enables ATAPI DMADIR bridge support*/


That configuration is not well tested, as SATAPI is very new.  Most SATA 
drivers except AHCI should work with SATAPI (AHCI needs a couple 
modifications first).

	Jeff