Easy to say harder to do.
Andre Hedrick
LAD Storage Consulting Group
On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, Richard Zidlicky wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 05:28:03PM -0700, Andre Hedrick wrote:
> >
> > Poke in your own special ide-ops function pointers.
> > This should have been allowed on a per chipset/channel bases.
>
> I need different transfer functions depending on whether drive
> control data(like IDENT,SMART) or HD sectors are to be transfered.
> Control data requires byteswapping to correct bus-byteorder
> whereas sector r/w has to be raw for compatibility.
>
> So that will require 2 additional iops pointers and some change
> in ide_handler_parser or ide_cmd_type_parser to select the
> appropriate version depending on the drive command.
>
> Richard
>
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