Re: [PATCH] 2.5.6 IDE 19

Alan Cox
2002-03-11T19:25:08Z

> The idea behind native DFT is to be able to perform drive diagnostics from
> within the OS without rebooting with a DOS disk and tying up the system
> for hours during the checks. The advantages of this combined with IDE/SCSI
> hot swap are strikingly obvious...

So providing we have a properly generic "issue IDE command from user space"
do we need any more kernel magic for this ?