From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tejun Heo Subject: Re: Recommendations on user-space soft/hardreset Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 13:15:47 +0900 Message-ID: <469D93F3.8030707@gmail.com> References: <6b01c6170707171723p4fdae403hf5b605fce4595b7@mail.gmail.com> <6b01c6170707171734l12af7fbdt43c28edd32776858@mail.gmail.com> <469D8A99.8050102@gmail.com> <6b01c6170707172104s62408da6yc11f239cc2a37860@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from nz-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.162.234]:51147 "EHLO nz-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750847AbXGREPw (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Jul 2007 00:15:52 -0400 Received: by nz-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id s18so54535nze for ; Tue, 17 Jul 2007 21:15:52 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <6b01c6170707172104s62408da6yc11f239cc2a37860@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: flyashi@gmail.com Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Yasha Okshtein wrote: > Well ideally this should work with a port multiplier to soft/hardreset > only one disk behind the multiplier. You can do that too. Just do 'echo x - -' where x corresponds to the PMP port number. On older versions it's 'echo - x -'. > Also, this again doesn't allow > the user to specify soft or hard reset - I believe rescanning forces > hardresets. Fully implementing the SATA spec, which should eventually > be done anyway, seems like a cleaner solution. It defaults to softreset. -- tejun