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SubjectRe: Fwd: libata extension
Vitaliyi wrote:
>> Why is the access to Control register needed?
>
> To execute soft reset for example.
>
>> > In the perfect case i would like to be able to execute vendor command
>> > set (reverse engineered).
>>
>> Sounds interesting. :-)
>>
>> Could you give some more details on what are you going to implement?
>
> Reading/writing service area, uploading, downloading modules, working
> with flash etc.

SAT (aka ATA passthru) defines how to do soft-reset.

SG_IO supports the ATA_12 and ATA_16 commands which permit soft-reset
and similar tasks. libata supports this interface, but does not yet
support soft-reset and similar non-comment-oriented tasks. This would
be the best area to add such features, though.

Jeff



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