On Sat, 22 Jul 2000, Khimenko Victor wrote:
> >> What I tried to understand in between Andre's swearwords, is that you
> >> can enable drives to access a full set of parameters ("taskfile") or
> >> you can disable this. If you enable it, you can fry the drive. If you
> >> disable it, you can't but you can still use the regular ATA command
> >> set which is all that the kernel will ever need.
>
> > Yep. There's a big red self-destruct button on the drive. Either we leave
> > it enabled, or switch it off.
>
> 1. We can not switch it off while retaining raw hardware access.
> 2. We can make it inaccessible for someone without CAP_SYS_RAW by two lines
> patch instead of 60K patch.
I think that 2. is the right thing... just my 0.05 zl (polish currency :)...
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