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Looking for the official ATA-4 specification/RFC

I'm looking for one of the following: - ATA-4 Specification - A wrapper for the ATA-4 specification written in Real Mode Assembly (MASM/TURBO ASM) ...

LBA48 in Linux SCSI ATA Passthrough

I am writing a custom disk monitoring/diagnostics app which, among other things, needs to do stuff to SATA disks behind a SAS PCI card under Linux. So far I am following this guide as well as the example code in sg_utils to pass ATA taskfiles through the SCSI layer. Seems to be working okay. However, in both cases, the CDB data structur...

ATA TRIM Specification?

Hi, Anyone know where I'd find an ATA reference that details the protocol for triggering a TRIM? I'm looking to discover what sort of structure/object/data I'd need to send in a raw IOCTL to get an ATA device to trigger a TRIM (assuming appropriate hardware/firmware support, obviously). Thanks. ...