On Sun, Aug 03, 2008 at 08:33:13PM -0500, James Bottomley wrote: > On Mon, 2008-08-04 at 03:10 +0200, Douglas Gilbert wrote: > > USB storage devices that support SAT (the T10 SCSI to ATA > > translation standard) are beginning to appear. > > Um, confused. The USB devices that were ATA under the covers already > have to do SAT since the USB storage transport mandates SCSI. The enclosures today translate a small subset set of SCSI commands to ATA/ATAPI commands. SAT would allow arbitrary ATA commands to be sent to target devices. In theory. I've only seen a few products that support ATA passthrough, and they all did it in a vendor-proprietary manner. Matt -- Matthew Dharm Home: mdharm-usb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Maintainer, Linux USB Mass Storage Driver I could always suspend a few hundred accounts and watch what happens. -- Tanya User Friendly, 7/31/1998
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