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Bob, I received the following request from one of my developers, please include this on the agenda. Basically we have a single request: please provide a pass-through that allows to send all ATA commands, including vendor-unique and even undocumented ones! We understand that there will be restrictions (e.g. commands that depend on a specific timing will most probably not work), but hopefully there will also be mappings to retrieve ATA status only (e.g. get the current ATA taskfile contents via Mode Sense), doing an ATA softreset (via Mode Select) and similar low-level operations. A working example for such an interface is the Linux ATA Taskfile pass-through command layer (ide-taskfile.c) which was developed with assistance from our team. It hides the physical ATA addressing while still allowing to send any command and getting status any time. Regards, Steve Livaccari Hard Drive Engineering IBM Global Procurement Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone (919) 543.7393
