WOOHOO,
SOMEONE HAS SEEN THE LIGHT!!!!
THANK YOU RYAN!!!!!!!!!
On Fri, 21 Jul 2000 bodnar42@bodnar42.dhs.org wrote:
> Alright, actually, after having a cup of coffee (most of which ended up
> on my keyboard :( ), I fully agree with our poor misunderstood friend
> Andre. If something is providing access to something at a protocol level,
> it is its job to make sure that the protocol is not violated.... imagine a
> TCP/IP stack that let you send invalid packets, that wouldn't go over too
> well.
> Violations of the ATA specification should be prevented, if not for
> protection from users shooting themselves in the foot (I still fail to see
> this as a threat, BTW), just out of plain old fashioned correctness. Hell,
> I'd be willing to code a patch for it at this point if I knew what the
> fsck I was doin'...
>
> Cheers,
> Ryan
>
Andre Hedrick
The Linux ATA/IDE guy
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