From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: ATA Pass-Through support
Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2006 13:17:07 -0500
Message-ID: <440736A3.8090207@pobox.com>
References: <DF9C50EF9E8CDA45A06FE8735C68F85E5692E5@earthex2.power.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Return-path: <linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org>
Received: from mail.dvmed.net ([216.237.124.58]:46533 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net")
	by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964773AbWCBSRR (ORCPT
	<rfc822;linux-ide@vger.kernel.org>); Thu, 2 Mar 2006 13:17:17 -0500
In-Reply-To: <DF9C50EF9E8CDA45A06FE8735C68F85E5692E5@earthex2.power.com>
Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org
List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
To: Quat Le <Quat.Le@dothill.com>
Cc: "Moore, Eric" <Eric.Moore@lsil.com>, dougg@torque.net, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, Brian King <brking@us.ibm.com>, "linux-ide@vger.kernel.org" <linux-ide@vger.kernel.org>

Quat Le wrote:
> Does anyone know of any SAS HBA vendor whose driver either uses libata
> or supports SATA Pass-Through SCSI commands in their own layer? 

Brian King, maintainer of the ipr driver, has posted patches which 
integrate libata SATA support into his driver.  Merging those is on my 
todo list, though I'm currently waiting on Tejun Heo's error handling 
work before tackling that (and NCQ and hotplug...).

	Jeff