RFC: ATA to CAM integration patch

[Ulrich Spörlein]

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
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