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From: Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca>
To: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>,
	Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] libata: implement HDIO_GET_IDENTITY
Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2007 12:47:20 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <459A9AA8.5060808@rtr.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070102112007.GF10987@htj.dyndns.org>

Tejun Heo wrote:
> 'hdparm -I' doesn't work with ATAPI devices and sg_sat is not widely
> spread yet leaving no easy way to access ATAPI IDENTIFY data.
> Implement HDIO_GET_IDENTITY such that at least 'hdparm -i' works.

Mmm.. I still think this old ioctl is ugly, and I'd rather
have things fixed so that "hdparm -I" works instead.

Unless having access to the libata cached ID block is useful
beyond just getting ATAPI drives to work with -I.
Is it?  I suppose it might be useful to be able to look at it.

hdparm *does* try to issue the PACKET IDENTIFY whenever
a regular IDENTIFY fails.  Currently these all go through
the HDIO_DRIVE_CMD ioctl().  I don't have a system set up
here that has any ATAPI over libata to test with.
Could you perhaps try and see where that ioctl() is failing?

Thanks

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-01-02 17:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-01-02 11:18 [PATCH 1/3] libata: straighten out ATA_ID_* constants Tejun Heo
2007-01-02 11:19 ` [PATCH 2/3] libata: use ata_id_c_string() Tejun Heo
2007-01-02 11:20   ` [PATCH] libata: implement HDIO_GET_IDENTITY Tejun Heo
2007-01-02 11:21     ` [PATCH *3/3*] " Tejun Heo
2007-01-02 17:47     ` Mark Lord [this message]
2007-01-02 17:59       ` [PATCH] " Tejun Heo
2007-01-02 18:18         ` Mark Lord
2007-01-02 21:52           ` Mark Lord
2007-01-08  2:29     ` Jeff Garzik
2007-01-08  4:00       ` Tejun Heo
2007-01-25  1:22     ` Jeff Garzik
2007-01-25  5:14       ` Mark Lord
2007-01-25  7:42         ` Jeff Garzik
2007-01-09 10:42 ` [PATCH 1/3] libata: straighten out ATA_ID_* constants Jeff Garzik

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