Greg,
My intention is to learn to write a SATA driver with the hardware
that I have. I have a SATA hard drive from Western Digital (MDL :
WD800JD-75MSAS)
and SATA controller (Intel 82801 GB/GR/GH ( ICH7 family ) for which the
drivers are already
present. I want to unload the drivers and reverse engineer them and make
them working.
Is it a good way to learn SATA/SCSI drivers ?? Please guide me with your
invaluable experience.
Regards,
Onkar
On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 7:05 AM, Greg Freemyer <greg.freem...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 1:03 AM, Onkar Mahajan <kern.de...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > How can I start writing the SATA HDD drivers ?
> > Does anybody has information on data-sheets on Western digital ( more
> > specifically WD800JD SATA hard drive) ?
> > Please help me with this.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Onkar
> >
>
> One place to look for specs is http://gkernel.sourceforge.net/specs/
>
> But I don't see any hdd specs there.
>
> I would ask on the ide list: linux-...@vger.kernel.org
>
> otoh, what is a hdd driver? Linux doesn't have such.
>
> There are some quirk areas dedicated to specific hdds, but I would not
> call that a driver.
>
> Greg
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