From: Brian King <brking@us.ibm.com>
To: Ilia Sotnikov <hostcc@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org,
jgarzik@pobox.com, James.Bottomley@steeleye.com
Subject: Re: Status of SAS ability to attach SATA devices
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 07:55:45 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4497F051.2050601@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6ac07bf90606191047o131ec37eq6e1bcaf6205ea8ea@mail.gmail.com>
Ilia Sotnikov wrote:
> Hardware: IBM 206m, AIC 9405 SAS/SATA controller, 2 SATA drives.
>
> Having read several threads about SAS ability to attach SATA devices
> (what's needed in my case), I found that this is work-in-progress.
I have a patchset to libata to enable the ipr driver to attach
SATA devices. My hope was that other drivers would be able to use this
as well.
> I've tried all three of above mentioned versions - PHYs are discovered
> correctly (as far as I can tell) but no disk devices are registered.
> According to comments in sources that's predictable.
>
> Questions are:
> - what tree is recommended to work on;
I'm not sure if there is a single tree right now. scsi-misc-2.6 has all
the latest SAS transport updates and libata-dev#upstream has all the latest
libata changes.
Brian
--
Brian King
eServer Storage I/O
IBM Linux Technology Center
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-06-20 12:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-06-19 17:47 Status of SAS ability to attach SATA devices Ilia Sotnikov
2006-06-20 3:31 ` Luben Tuikov
2006-06-20 12:55 ` Brian King [this message]
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