Why don't you just send your ATA taskfile as ATA_12 or ATA_16 CDB through the device node ans save yourself all the work of writing a driver? -- 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