Subject: Re: atactl, ATAIOCCOMMAND and SMART status cylinder value
To: None <tech-kern@NetBSD.org>
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios@cs.uni-bonn.de>
List: tech-kern
Date: 11/17/2004 10:58:29
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On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 10:37:22AM +0100, Frank van der Linden wrote:
> I recently had some problems with "atactl smart status" on a big-endian
> system. The drive rejected the command, and I tried to figure out why.

[explanation snipped]

> In other words, native byte order is the right way to go, and atactl.c
> should be changed.
>=20
> I'll make this change in a few days if there are no objections.

Uhm... you didn't mention whether this change fixed your problem...

	-is

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