Hi Mark!

On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 11:41:37AM -0500, Mark Lord wrote:
> Ahh.. got it.  The host_status returned (not checked by that code) was 7,
> which means "host error".
>
> In this case, that's because the cmd_len is (16), which is too large for 
> ATAPI.
> It needs to be changed to (12) instead.

I don't understand. You seem to use a cmd_len of 16 in hdparm yourself.
And why does it work with the "old" ATA driver and not with libata if
16 is too large for ATAPI in general?

> The code (apart from totally mishandling any kinds of errors) works after 
> that.

Greetings
Sebastian
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