From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Brian King Subject: Re: Status of SAS ability to attach SATA devices Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 07:55:45 -0500 Message-ID: <4497F051.2050601@us.ibm.com> References: <6ac07bf90606191047o131ec37eq6e1bcaf6205ea8ea@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: brking@us.ibm.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from e2.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.142]:30163 "EHLO e2.ny.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750735AbWFTMzv (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Jun 2006 08:55:51 -0400 In-Reply-To: <6ac07bf90606191047o131ec37eq6e1bcaf6205ea8ea@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Ilia Sotnikov Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, jgarzik@pobox.com, James.Bottomley@steeleye.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