Hi, On Sunday 11 March 2007, Vitaliyi wrote: > Good Day > > Say i want to implement extended set of ATA commands available to > userspace for building diagnostic tools. > I need 0x40 -- read verify and 0x32 -- write long with error handling,
Mark Lord is working on READ/WRITE_LONG support for libata, he has posted draft patch recently on linux-ide mailing list. [ Please consider reading/joining [email protected] ML, it is where Linux ATA discussion happens... ] > for example. I was trying ide driver through ioctl's, but seems it > lack of functionality and full of gotchas. Furthermore it oopses > sometimes. READ/WRITE_LONG is unsupported and as you've already noticed TASKFILE ioctls are full of gotchas... > Is it possible to use libata for such purpose or i need to write > separate IDE driver ? It should be possible using ATA pass-through, some libata changes may be required but it is the right way to go IMO. Bart - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
