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SubjectRe: Need IDE Taskfile Access
Użytkownik Garet Cammer napisał:
> For some time now we have been writing user applications that send ATAPI
> commands to the IDE bus to initialize and configure our hardware RAID 1
> controllers. This has been working well, thanks to Andre's patch that
> gave us taskfile access through the ioctl API. We were counting on it to
> be a permanent part of the 2.5/2.6 kernel, since there is a lot of
> hardware in the field using these apps.
> Imagine our surprise when we discovered that taskfile access was being
> abandoned completely!
> Although we understand that the kernel may need to filter some commands,
> why can't applications access at least the Smart commands? Help!
> Regards,
> Garet Cammer
> Software Development
> Arco Computer Products
> (954) 925-2688

ATAPI is no problem. You can use the whole SCSI layer on top of
ide-scsi.





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