Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262254AbUC1V0Z (ORCPT ); Sun, 28 Mar 2004 16:26:25 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262399AbUC1V0W (ORCPT ); Sun, 28 Mar 2004 16:26:22 -0500 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:63457 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262254AbUC1V0S (ORCPT ); Sun, 28 Mar 2004 16:26:18 -0500 Message-ID: <406742EB.30501@pobox.com> Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2004 16:26:03 -0500 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030703 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Stefan Smietanowski 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> <406740B9.9040409@stesmi.com> In-Reply-To: <406740B9.9040409@stesmi.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: 867 Lines: 31 Stefan Smietanowski wrote: > 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 ... Correct. Jeff - 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/