From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Brian King Subject: Re: ATA Pass-Through support Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2006 10:50:13 -0600 Message-ID: <440873C5.8050403@us.ibm.com> References: <440736A3.8090207@pobox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from e3.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.143]:21719 "EHLO e3.ny.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030231AbWCCQur (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Mar 2006 11:50:47 -0500 In-Reply-To: <440736A3.8090207@pobox.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Jeff Garzik Cc: Quat Le , "Moore, Eric" , dougg@torque.net, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, "linux-ide@vger.kernel.org" , htejun@gmail.com Jeff Garzik wrote: > 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...). Tejen, Is there anything I can do to help with the error handling work Jeff is referring to? Brian -- Brian King eServer Storage I/O IBM Linux Technology Center