Re: ide errors in 7-rc1-mm1 and later

[Eric D. Mudama]

On Sat, Jun  5 at 11:24, Jens Axboe wrote:
> I did suggest this a few years ago. The comment I received was that
> they didn't take suggestions from OS people, if I didn't have a drive
> implementation to go with the proposal they couldn't use it for
> anything. Which was interesting, since that seemed to suggest that t13
> had little steering in ata development, they mainly put into the ATA
> specs what drive manufacturers shoved at them. Of course this isn't 100%
> true, but it does explain a lot of things :-)

If it helps, I'm listening.

Suggestions/proposals for new features etc, if they're a good idea, I
can help push inside via our SATA/T13 reps.  Note that as per all
long-lived specs with multiple revisions, changing the behavior of an
existing feature to something incompatible is virtually never
feasable.

> Andre even tried getting FUA to do what we needed, no such luck there.
> Some other bigger OS wanted it differently, the rest is history.

Lo siento, I wasn't around when that occurred.  Of course, that other
bigger OS has a very large installed base, and selling a drive that
breaks it is corporate suicide.


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Eric D. Mudama
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