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From: Brian King <brking@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] libata: Support SATA attached via SAS
Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2006 08:32:33 -0500
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Douglas Gilbert wrote:
> Brian King wrote:
>> Jeff,
>>
>> Here is a refresh of my patchset to allow SAS HBAs to use libata to
>> control attached SATA devices. It should apply cleanly to #upstream.
> 
> Brian,
> I hope that libata's ATA PASS THROUGH (16) SCSI command
> is wired up as I just checked a new device type '-d sat'
> into smartmontools cvs.

Yes. Any command supported by libata today should also be supported
with this patchset.

Brian

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Brian King
eServer Storage I/O
IBM Linux Technology Center