Re: libata extension

[Alan Cox]

> I believe you should be able to do this by sending ATA pass-through SCSI 
> commands into the device using SG_IO, without any kernel changes. It's 
> really the mechanism that's meant for this..

It should work, but Mark Lord reported some problems with READ_LONG on
PIIX/ICH intel chipsets. I don't know if he ever resolved them but if not
I have a patch that ought to.

Alan
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