handling received FISes in SATA driver & libATA !!!

Hi, I am new to SATA driver development. Here i have few questions. I am able to understand how SATA driver will send FISes to device. I would like to know how the received FISes are handled in case of FISes come from the device? These FISes are copied in a special area whose base address is

SATA driver implementation

Hi, I am writing SATA driver for on chip SATA controller, here i have few questions: 1. AFAIK, SATA device falls under PCI class device in kernel, so its make use of some of the PCI API utilities to read the PCI header ( where one can get the information about the SATA controller base address

RE: SATA driver

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Re: SATA driver

Hi, Le Tue, 12 Feb 2008 10:55:59 +0530, "Saumendra Dash" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > Is there something missing to make the driver work in Emulated-PATA > mode? Your question is very IDE/ATA-specific. I would say that you can ask it on the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list (which as stated by

SATA driver

Hi all, I'm working on a ULI1575 SATA driver which I want to run in Emulated-PATA mode. I have the following understanding to run a SATA device in Emulated-PATA mode: 1. In Emulated-PATA mode the legacy IDE driver should access the SATA device directly in combined mode. 2. The