On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 05:16:16PM -0300, Luciano A. Stertz wrote: > Greg KH wrote: > >On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 03:23:19PM -0300, Luciano A. Stertz wrote: > > > >> I'm trying to understand the Linux SATA support. Does SATA disk > >> appear as IDE (hdx) or SCSI (sdx) drives?!? Seems to me that they > >> were being handled as IDE in some kernel versions and now is handled as > >>SCSI. Can someone please confirm this? What's the reason to handle an ATA > >>disk as SCSI?!? > > > > > >Because sata is really just scsi over a different transport, just like > >USB storage devices :) > > > >And yes, your SATA disks will show up as sdx. > > > >greg k-h > > > > Yes, but how can I communicate with the device if I can't issue ATA > commands? For example, how can I get SMART information, or device's > firmware version?!? Have you tried issuing these commands? How about the scsi commands to get that information? > Are there really older libata versions that reported SATA devices as > IDE? I think some of the older 2.4 kernels did this. greg k-h -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
