Re: Fwd: libata extension

[Jeff Garzik]

Vitaliyi wrote:
> > Why is the access to Control register needed?
>
> To execute soft reset for example.
>
> > > In the perfect case i would like to be able to execute vendor command
> > > set (reverse engineered).
> >
> > Sounds interesting. :-)
> >
> > Could you give some more details on what are you going to implement?
>
> Reading/writing service area, uploading, downloading modules, working
> with flash etc.

SAT (aka ATA passthru) defines how to do soft-reset.

SG_IO supports the ATA_12 and ATA_16 commands which permit soft-reset 
and similar tasks.  libata supports this interface, but does not yet 
support soft-reset and similar non-comment-oriented tasks.  This would 
be the best area to add such features, though.

	Jeff



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