James, This patch depends on the SAS libata API that was just recently added to Jeff's #upstream branch. Should I resend this patch once the libata changes are upstream? Brian -- 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