Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 18 Jun 2002 16:38:31 +0200 | From | Martin Dalecki <> | Subject | Re: Need IDE Taskfile Access |
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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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