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authormlelstv <mlelstv@NetBSD.org>2019-05-31 05:47:22 +0000
committermlelstv <mlelstv@NetBSD.org>2019-05-31 05:47:22 +0000
commitaaf59cab43d6478c9dbdfc0876e52d5ba749ddb8 (patch)
tree9cb9f6be162f1223121f0c7402c2321cbfb07b84 /sbin
parentcc71fc98273759193a9fdac8833456dc9781b758 (diff)
Mention SATL support.
Diffstat (limited to 'sbin')
-rw-r--r--sbin/atactl/atactl.810
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/sbin/atactl/atactl.8 b/sbin/atactl/atactl.8
index b0f3aec94d7..c435b38372e 100644
--- a/sbin/atactl/atactl.8
+++ b/sbin/atactl/atactl.8
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $NetBSD: atactl.8,v 1.29 2019/03/03 04:51:57 mrg Exp $
+.\" $NetBSD: atactl.8,v 1.30 2019/05/31 05:47:22 mlelstv Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1998, 2019 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
.\" All rights reserved.
@@ -48,6 +48,10 @@ control devices which reside on standard IDE and ATA controllers, or
the ATA bus itself.
It is used by specifying a device or bus to manipulate,
the command to perform, and any arguments the command may require.
+.Pp
+You may also control devices which are inside a SCSI enclosure, this
+includes many USB disks. In this case ATA commands are passed through
+the SCSI layer using SATL commands.
.Sh DEVICE COMMANDS
The following commands may be used on IDE and ATA devices.
Note that not all devices support all commands.
@@ -279,6 +283,8 @@ command written by
significantly enhanced the
.Cm smart status
support.
+.An Michael van Elst
+added support for SATL.
.Sh BUGS
The output from the
.Cm identify
@@ -295,3 +301,5 @@ The
.Cm smart status
command currently guesses the vendor attribute name table to use,
and may be wrong or miss supported devices.
+.Pp
+SATL bus commands don't work yet.