Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 18 Jun 2002 09:22:02 -0700 (PDT) | From | Andre Hedrick <> | Subject | Re: Need IDE Taskfile Access |
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Garet,
You are wasting electons, the interface is gone and the API to the transport is wrecked. I will need to compose a loadable module to renable the support. Clearly 2.5/2.6 is not friendly with the needs of the industry and it will never be at this rate.
In the end, I will end up writing a closed ATA binary driver for sale as a replacement. I have had several requests to consider the option. As much as I do not like the idea, it is less offensive than the current direction.
Andre Hedrick LAD Storage Consulting Group
On Tue, 18 Jun 2002, Garet Cammer wrote:
> 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 >
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