On Tue, 2003-01-07 at 11:30, John Bradford wrote:
> > > There is no simple way, no.
> > What about IDE Taskfile access, it's help says something like it's the
> > crown jewel of hard drive forensics.
>
> What *is* IDE Taskfile access exactly?
>
> I assumed it was a way of accessing a list of queued commands in the
> device that had not been processed yet.
Its a more formalised interface to issue commands to the controller.
Each IDE command has a series of phases you have to issue in the
right order. The taskfile ioctls ensure you can issue pretty much
any command safely
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