Re: Q: how to send ATA cmds to USB drive?

Alan Cox
2006-05-24T11:08:38Z

On Mer, 2006-05-24 at 11:22 +0200, Herbert Rosmanith wrote:
> But now I also have to support USB harddisks from the same company.
> The USB harddisk uses the same set of ATA commands as the IDE harddisk,
> well, at least that's what I suppose.

USB storage is a sort of 'pigdin' SCSI. You send SCSI commands to the
USB storage device but you may find anything too clever breaks.