Re: libata PATA support - work items?

For the 1st item,
- add PATA device errata/blacklist info
Is there any detail or draft design idea available?

For
- C/H/S addressing.
 I've an old Segate drive which support CHS-only at hand.
Maybe I can work on it first.

  BTW, what items are required for the PATA lowlevel driver like pdc2027x
to move out of the libata-dev tree to production tree? Do we have to finish all items?


Albert

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeff Garzik" <redacted>
To: "Albert Lee" <redacted>
Cc: "Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz" <bzolnier@gmail.com>; "IDE Linux" <redacted>; "Doug Maxey" <redacted>;
"Alan Cox" [off-list ref]
Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2005 7:32 AM
Subject: Re: libata PATA support - work items?

Albert Lee wrote:

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The following PATA work items were previously collected from the mailing list:
    1. ATAPI
       1.1 possibly avoid REPORT LUNS for ATAPI devices
       1.2 when check condition occurs, automatically request sense inside
            driver, and put that data into the sense buffer.
       1.3 make INQUIRY report SCSI version MMC-3 (or later...)
       1.4 support strange sector sizes
    2. C/H/S addressing; libata currently hardcoded to use LBA
    3. add PATA device errata/blacklist info
   (Any missing items?)

Need your advice, thanks.

Yes, this seems like an accurate list to me.

I would probably prioritize #3 as the most important, followed by C/H/S
support.

Jeff


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