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From: Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca>
Subject: Re: TASKFILE ioctl for libata?
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 14:00:46 -0500
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Erik Mouw wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Hdparm (6.3) needs the TASKFILE ioctl for the ATA security feature set
> (security freeze, security unlock, etc.). I can't find it in Jeff's
> libata-dev tree, is there somebody already working on it? Or is there a
> workaround?
>

If that ioctl is missing in libata, then I'll have to convert hdparm
to use SGIO to submit ATA Passthru packets instead for libata devices.

That's on my TO-DO list, and rising more quickly to the top now, it seems.

Cheers