Re: Q: how to send ATA cmds to USB drive?

From: Alan Cox
Date: Wed May 24 2006 - 07:07:52 EST


On Mer, 2006-05-24 at 11:22 +0200, Herbert Rosmanith wrote:
> But now I also have to support USB harddisks from the same company.
> The USB harddisk uses the same set of ATA commands as the IDE harddisk,
> well, at least that's what I suppose.

USB storage is a sort of 'pigdin' SCSI. You send SCSI commands to the
USB storage device but you may find anything too clever breaks.


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