Re: [Hdaps-devel] Re: HDAPS, Need to park the head for real

[Jon Escombe]

> > > On Tue, Aug 16 2005, Alejandro Bonilla Beeche wrote:
> > > If I were in your position, I would just implement this for ide (pata,
> > > not sata) right now, since that is what you need to support (or do some
> > > of these notebooks come with sata?). So it follows that you add an ide
> > >      
> > Some notebooks are coming up with a Sata controller I think, but is
> > still and IDE drive. I think some T43's come with that.
> >
> > But, I will ask or check again later if we ever need this feature for
> > SATA.
> >    
I can confirm that T43's are using libata.
I've tweaked the passthrough code to return the status registers (so we 
can tell whether the disk is parking sucessfully) 
http://groups.google.co.uk/group/fa.linux.kernel/browse_frm/thread/bd6b65dfcd1a3227

Regards,
Jon.



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