Re: aic94xx status

Brian King
2006-07-20T14:44:33Z

Robert Tarte wrote:
>> 1) SATA support. We at least need this stubbed out so seeing a SATA
>> device won't cause nasty things to happen (IBM is working on this).
>> Ideally, we need to integrate this driver with Brian King's SATA/SAS
>> code, but no-one who has this board has a sata device and vice versa.
>
> [Tarte, Robert] I'm not sure what Brian King's SATA/SA code is, but I do
> have boards that use the razor chip and I have SATA devices.

The patch referred to here is a patch to libata that adds a set of APIs
that allows a SAS HBA to hook into libata to control SATA devices. It
was written so that I could get ipr to hook into libata, and the hope
is that it could be used by other SAS drivers as well. Unfortunately,
no other SAS drivers that support SATA passthrough have really tried
using it yet.

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-ide&m=115279779219927&w=2

Brian