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Jeff
I think you were actually looking at T10/04-262r0...
1. I don't think this addresses queuing very well. In the scope I have
excluded queing from the support. That does not mean that it can not be
made to work...
2. I agree with you. However, I do not think the CDB can be separated from
the transport. The transport has direction, transfer size, and other useful
bits of information. I included the DMA bit because an ATA host need to
know to use DMA or PIO to transfer the data. I have also included the DRQ
block size for PIO transfers. I think that gives you all the information
you need to do the transfer. That being said, if it would make things
easier to use, I can remove the DMA bit in favor of a field that specs
protocol. What do others think?
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From: Jeff Garzik [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2004 7:20 PM
To: Curtis Stevens
Cc: Sheffield, Robert L; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [t13] SAT: Reminder - Teleconference Thur 8/12 9:00 AM
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Curtis Stevens wrote:
> Just a heads up, I posted a proposal (04-260.PDF) for
> documenting how a SCSI command maps to an ATA command.
This is fantastic. A standard method of ATA passthru is the last piece
of the puzzle, WRT SCSI<->ATA translation, that Linux needed. Thank you.
One problem, which appears to be easily correctable:
Any ATA passthru method must specify the command protocol: DMA-In,
DMA-Out, TCQ DMA-In, TCQ DMA-Out, PIO-In, PIO-Out, PIO-In-Mult, etc.
Rationale:
1) For standard ATA commands, a cumbersome (and unneeded) lookup table
or C 'switch' statement is required to obtain the command protocol.
2) The low-level ATA driver has no idea how to execute a vendor-reserved
ATA command without the command protocol.
My suggestion is to used the 'Reserved' byte for this data field.
The current Linux implementation of the "taskfile ioctl" (a.k.a. ATA
passthru) includes the command protocol field.
Jeff
