On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 00:56:18 -0500, Jeff Garzik [off-list ref] wrote:

Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:

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If somebody implements SG_IO ioctl and SCSI command pass-through
from libata for IDE driver (and add possibility for discrete taskfiles), we can
just deprecate HDIO_DRIVE_TASKFILE, forget about it and some time later
remove this FPOS.

Can you explain what you mean by "add possibility for discrete taskfiles"?

I mean flagged taskfiles.