Re: Need IDE Taskfile Access

Garet,

You are wasting electons, the interface is gone and the API to the
transport is wrecked.  I will need to compose a loadable module to renable
the support.  Clearly 2.5/2.6 is not friendly with the needs of the
industry and it will never be at this rate.

In the end, I will end up writing a closed ATA binary driver for sale as a
replacement.  I have had several requests to consider the option.  As much
as I do not like the idea, it is less offensive than the current
direction.

Andre Hedrick
LAD Storage Consulting Group


On Tue, 18 Jun 2002, Garet Cammer wrote:

> For some time now we have been writing user applications that send ATAPI commands to the IDE bus to initialize and configure our hardware RAID 1 controllers. This has been working well, thanks to Andre's patch that gave us taskfile access through the ioctl API. We were counting on it to be a permanent part of the 2.5/2.6 kernel, since there is a lot of hardware in the field using these apps.
> Imagine our surprise when we discovered that taskfile access was being abandoned completely!
> Although we understand that the kernel may need to filter some commands, why can't applications access at least the Smart commands? Help!
> Regards,
> Garet Cammer
> Software Development
> Arco Computer Products
> (954) 925-2688
> 

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