Re: TASKFILE ioctl for libata?

[Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>]

Matt Gillette wrote:
> Mark,
> 
> Thanks to Alan Cox, I now have a libata driver for my IDE controller. 
> Now I'm looking into the next problem I have, which seems to be the same 
> problem you're running into. I need a generic ATA passthru mechanism to 
> configure our raid controller and need to send both non-data and data 
> commands (with PIO and DMA).
> 
> Bartlomiej suggested using SGIO, but I haven't found any good 
> documentation or examples on what I would need to do to prepare and send 
> the command.
> 
> I'm not sure how much I could help (I'm still a beginner), but I just 
> wanted to put in the fact that I'm interested in seeing a working 
> example of the SGIO protocol and am willing to offer any help I can.

Hello, Matt.

If you're looking for ATA SGIO example, smartctl source should have it. 
  smartctl uses ATA SGIO when given -d ATA option.  And, plesase don't 
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tejun