Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 12:55:56 +0200 From: Ulrich =?utf-8?B?U3DDtnJsZWlu?= <uqs@spoerlein.net> To: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> Cc: Alexander Motin <mav@freebsd.org>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RFC: ATA to CAM integration patch Message-ID: <20090629105556.GB72094@acme.spoerlein.net> In-Reply-To: <4A465F8C.4030901@samsco.org> References: <4A4517BE.9040504@FreeBSD.org> <200906271419.49329.pieter@degoeje.nl> <4A464EED.3070700@FreeBSD.org> <4A465F8C.4030901@samsco.org>
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On Sat, 27.06.2009 at 12:06:04 -0600, Scott Long wrote: > Alexander Motin wrote: > > This is not a problem. ATA disks does not have SCSI INQUIRY command. > > They use own IDENTIFY instead. inquiry should work for ATAPI devices, as > > they are SCSI deep inside. > > This is really the big missing piece in camcontrol; we need to add > support for getting the IDENT info and getting/setting various > attributes, as well as sending ATA commands over passthrough. Hi Scott, not sure if this is related, but I always wondered why tools like smartctl never work with USB attached ATA disks. Is it missing support in our drivers and smartctl or is it simply impossible? Cheers, Ulrich Spörlein -- http://www.dubistterrorist.de/
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