James Bottomley wrote:
.. I don't think I quite understand what you're trying to do here. My understanding is that ATA_12 and ATA_16 are part of the SAT layer. i.e. they're used when we're speaking SCSI to an underlying ATA device to send taskfiles. However, ATAPI devices don't use SAT ... every SCSI command you send to an ATAPI device goes out as an ATA PACKET command without being translated.
ATAPI devices also implement quite a few ATA (non-packet) commands. This patch gives us a way to issue them in response to SG_IO ATA passthru and the existing (non working) libata HDIO_DRIVE_CMD and HDIO_DRIVE_TASK ioctl calls. Without this patch, SCSI blocks the ATA_16 passthru attempts, because it thinks the CDB is too large for the 12-byte packet protocol that ATAPI devices use. This limit (12 bytes) is totally non-applicable to ATA protocol commands.
Is there a missing piece to this patch, where you scan the incoming commands to ATAPI devices and actually do translation for ATA_16?
Look at the existing libata-core.c ioctl's for HDIO_DRIVE_CMD and HDIO_DRIVE_TASK, used by hdparm and others. Cheers - To unsubscribe from this list: 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
