Re: USB IDE Connector

From: Greg KH
Date: Fri Feb 25 2005 - 18:05:04 EST


On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 10:30:27AM +0530, Sumit Narayan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have an external IDE connector through USB port. Where could I get
> the exact point inside the kernel, from where I would get information
> such as Block No., Request size, partition details for a particular
> request, _just_ before being sent to the disk.
>
> Like, for a normal IDE, I could gather these details from inside the
> function __ide_do_rw_disk from "struct request". Is there anyway for
> finding out the same for a USB mass storage device?

Why would you want to know this information for a controller device that
acts like a scsi one, not an IDE one (that's what usb storage devices
do...)

thanks,

greg k-h
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