Re: ide errors in 7-rc1-mm1 and later

Eric D. Mudama
2004-06-06T16:16:17Z

On Sat, Jun 5 at 11:24, Jens Axboe wrote:
>I did suggest this a few years ago. The comment I received was that
>they didn't take suggestions from OS people, if I didn't have a drive
>implementation to go with the proposal they couldn't use it for
>anything. Which was interesting, since that seemed to suggest that t13
>had little steering in ata development, they mainly put into the ATA
>specs what drive manufacturers shoved at them. Of course this isn't 100%
>true, but it does explain a lot of things :-)

If it helps, I'm listening.

Suggestions/proposals for new features etc, if they're a good idea, I
can help push inside via our SATA/T13 reps. Note that as per all
long-lived specs with multiple revisions, changing the behavior of an
existing feature to something incompatible is virtually never
feasable.

>Andre even tried getting FUA to do what we needed, no such luck there.
>Some other bigger OS wanted it differently, the rest is history.

Lo siento, I wasn't around when that occurred. Of course, that other
bigger OS has a very large installed base, and selling a drive that
breaks it is corporate suicide.

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Eric D. Mudama
edmudama@mail.bounceswoosh.org