Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262176AbUC1VRM (ORCPT ); Sun, 28 Mar 2004 16:17:12 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262351AbUC1VRM (ORCPT ); Sun, 28 Mar 2004 16:17:12 -0500 Received: from 1-2-2-1a.has.sth.bostream.se ([82.182.130.86]:24247 "EHLO K-7.stesmi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262176AbUC1VRJ (ORCPT ); Sun, 28 Mar 2004 16:17:09 -0500 Message-ID: <406740B9.9040409@stesmi.com> Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2004 23:16:41 +0200 From: Stefan Smietanowski User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040316 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeff Garzik CC: Nick Piggin , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, Linux Kernel , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH] speed up SATA References: <4066021A.20308@pobox.com> <40661049.1050004@yahoo.com.au> <406611CA.3050804@pobox.com> <406616EE.80301@pobox.com> <40667FAB.2090802@stesmi.com> <406734D3.7070501@pobox.com> In-Reply-To: <406734D3.7070501@pobox.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 806 Lines: 23 Hi Jeff. > SATA ATAPI looks and works just like PATA ATAPI, with one notable > exception: S/ATAPI will include "asynchronous notification", a feature > that allows you to eliminate the polling of the cdrom driver that > normally occurs. > > You can use ATAPI on SATA today, using a PATA->SATA bridge. In fact > that's the only way I can test SATA ATAPI at all, right now. > > I hope somebody sends me one of these Plextor devices for testing ;-) Would that mean that one uses the same (sub)drivers as normal SCSI devices do ? sd/sg/etc ... // Stefan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/