thomas schorpp wrote:
for hdparm ata-security theres ide taskfile used, can scsi command sequences combined with ide taskfiles which use own ioctls?
As Jeff said, libata translates some of the HDIO_TASK* functions into SCSI passthru commands, which then get translated back into ATA commands at the time of issue to the device. Once passthru makes it out into the wild (Linus kernels), I'll update hdparm to have it use SCSI passthru instead when available/appropriate. There will have to be about a year or so of full overlap (hdparm, smartmontools, and kernel), to give distros time to update/release with all of the affected components. After that, I imagine Jeff may want to remove the HDIO_TASK* calls again. Cheers - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
