Jeff, Here are a few patches against #upstream in preparation for adding support for attaching SATA devices via libata to SAS HBAs without a host_set. The first two patches have been submitted before, the second two are new. Thanks -- Brian King eServer Storage I/O IBM Linux Technology Center - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html