Re: Tracking ATA/ATAPI ioctl() calls....

[Antti Kantee <pooka%cs.hut.fi@localhost>]

On Tue Oct 07 2008 at 16:45:28 -0500, Bryce Simonds wrote:
> Thank you for the help,
> 
> Though I'm still a bit stuck.  From what I can tell, I am sending the
> correct data to the drive, and the kernel isn't doing anything with it, but
> every time I attempt to issue the ATA secure erase command through ioctl()
> it hard locks the computer, and the drive does nothing.
> 
> Any ideas?

Lots of printfs ;)
(or other means of tracing)

If you can figure out what exactly locks the system, it's easier for
other people to suggest how to fix it.