Steven Stallion wrote: > Thats perfect actually. I have a testing machine sitting next to me > which has an AHCI/ICH7 controller - I'll start with that. > > Once things get rolling on that, I may need a bit of help digging into > adding ATAPI support to the marvel driver. Rinse and repeat ;) > Please do not waste your time. The hardware supported by marevell88sx driver does not support ATAPI.
Regards, Lida > Thanks! > > Steve > > ying tian - Beijing China wrote: > >> Hi Steven, >> >> So far, there are four sata framework-compliant hba drivers - >> marvell88sx, si3124, ahci and nv_sata in Solaris, but at the moment, >> only the ahci driver has already supported ATAPI CD/DVD devices, that is >> to say the ahci driver has implemented ATAPI command support. So in my >> opinion, it's easy to first try your sata tape with one AHCI controller, >> and perhaps it can work just only with minor change in sata module. I >> don't think there will be any major change (I expect no change)in the >> ahci hba driver in order to support sata tape . Moreover, the AHCI spec >> is public, and you can download it from Intel website, and also ICHx >> AHCI mother board is not expensive. >> >> Thanks, >> - ying - >> >> Alan Perry wrote: >> >>> Artem Kachitchkine wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>>> Actually, most of the SATA team is in mpk and la. By luck, Alan >>>>> Perry is now working on SATA (ok, he's in washington;-) and involved >>>>> in this thread. I didn't realize he was working on SATA now, and I'm >>>>> sure Alan can help out here with the community. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> I don't see messages from Alan in my mailbox. And this thread does >>>> not seem to be in the list archives on opensolaris.org. The search >>>> returns: >>>> >>>> No search results for "sata tape". >>>> Did you mean: "Satan tape" >>>> >>>> (happy holidays :) In fact, what's in my mailbox and >>>> http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/forum.jspa?forumID=79 look >>>> suspiciously different... >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> Yeah, I was corresponding directly with Alan DuBoff on it. >>> >>> I am working on ATAPI support on nv_sata now. I have been looking at >>> the SATA tape stuff a little bit. If someone in the community is >>> working on SATA stuff, I can provide some assistance, but I am >>> learning this stuff as well. >>> >>> alan >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> driver-discuss mailing list >>> driver-discuss@opensolaris.org >>> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/driver-discuss >>> >>> > > > _______________________________________________ driver-discuss mailing list driver-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/driver-discuss
