Re: SATA passthrough commands from User Space

[Jeff Garzik]

Muhammad Mutahir Latif wrote:
> Hi
>
> I am new to linux kernel development and need help in developing an
> application in linux for a SATA device. What is required is that the
> application needs to send raw SATA commands along with data (like Read
> DMA, Write FPDMA etc) to a SATA hard disk. Secondly we also have to
> achieve a reasonably high data transfer throughput.

Use the existing SG_IO ioctl.

	Jeff



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