Re: Direct access to hardware

From: Paul Barton-Davis (pbd@Op.Net)
Date: Tue Jul 25 2000 - 14:55:49 EST


>> let me get this straight. are you saying that the "jaz" utility which
>> lets me password-protect write access to my jaz disks should not exist
>> under Linux ? this utility requires the ability to send that are
>> vendor-and-device-specific SCSI commands to the drive.
>
>That doesn't sound like a good implementation, but I doubt these commands
>would be in the same category of command as the flash update ones. I'm
>interested in the dangerous category, not the merely undocumented bits.

so, what do you think would be a good implementation and how do you
propose to distinguish this "category" of command from one to update
the drive ROM ?

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