Thats perfect actually. I have a testing machine sitting next to me which has an AHCI/ICH7 controller - I'll start with that.
Once things get rolling on that, I may need a bit of help digging into adding ATAPI support to the marvel driver. Rinse and repeat ;) Thanks! Steve ying tian - Beijing China wrote: > Hi Steven, > > So far, there are four sata framework-compliant hba drivers - > marvell88sx, si3124, ahci and nv_sata in Solaris, but at the moment, > only the ahci driver has already supported ATAPI CD/DVD devices, that is > to say the ahci driver has implemented ATAPI command support. So in my > opinion, it's easy to first try your sata tape with one AHCI controller, > and perhaps it can work just only with minor change in sata module. I > don't think there will be any major change (I expect no change)in the > ahci hba driver in order to support sata tape . Moreover, the AHCI spec > is public, and you can download it from Intel website, and also ICHx > AHCI mother board is not expensive. > > Thanks, > - ying - > > Alan Perry wrote: >> Artem Kachitchkine wrote: >> >> >>>> Actually, most of the SATA team is in mpk and la. By luck, Alan >>>> Perry is now working on SATA (ok, he's in washington;-) and involved >>>> in this thread. I didn't realize he was working on SATA now, and I'm >>>> sure Alan can help out here with the community. >>>> >>>> >>> I don't see messages from Alan in my mailbox. And this thread does >>> not seem to be in the list archives on opensolaris.org. The search >>> returns: >>> >>> No search results for "sata tape". >>> Did you mean: "Satan tape" >>> >>> (happy holidays :) In fact, what's in my mailbox and >>> http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/forum.jspa?forumID=79 look >>> suspiciously different... >>> >>> >>> >> Yeah, I was corresponding directly with Alan DuBoff on it. >> >> I am working on ATAPI support on nv_sata now. I have been looking at >> the SATA tape stuff a little bit. If someone in the community is >> working on SATA stuff, I can provide some assistance, but I am >> learning this stuff as well. >> >> alan >> >> _______________________________________________ >> driver-discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/driver-discuss >> > -- Yet magic and hierarchy arise from the same source, and this source has a null pointer. Reference the NULL within NULL, it is the gateway to all wizardry. _______________________________________________ driver-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/driver-discuss
