From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: ATA Pass-Through support Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2006 14:26:19 -0400 Message-ID: <20060607182619.GC21726@havoc.gtf.org> References: <44871954.8060701@torque.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from havoc.gtf.org ([69.61.125.42]:40082 "EHLO havoc.gtf.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751215AbWFGS0V (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Jun 2006 14:26:21 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <44871954.8060701@torque.net> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Douglas Gilbert Cc: Quat Le , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 02:22:12PM -0400, Douglas Gilbert wrote: > My example code only assumed a SCSI pass through > (SG_IO in this case) and a SATL ** that implements > the ATA PASS THROUGH SCSI commands. The MPT Fusion SAS > HBAs have their own SATL (not libata based) but unfortunately > don't implement the ATA pass through commands. My information > is that they will in the future. They do have a proprietary > ATA command passthrough. Note that there will -always- be proprietary ATA passthrough to deal with. 'sx8' driver firmware has such, for example. Jeff