The following patch enhances libata to allow SAS device drivers to utilize libata to talk to SATA devices. It is against libata-dev.git#upstream. -- Brian King eServer Storage I/O IBM Linux Technology Center - : 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