Andre Hedrick <andre@linux-ide.org> said:
[...]
> Willfully and now knowingly issuing commands that are otherwise not listed
> will be defined in ATA-ATAPI Specification can be deemed as violation of
> the Standard. Regardless if there are vendor-unique commands present or
> not, this would defined as accessing commands that are not considered the
> standard and deemed a violation.
If Linux (the kernel) does so, it is certainly a bug which must be fixed
ASAP. If a userland program provided by Western Digital, Seagate, IBM or
whatnot does so, it isn't Linux's fault.
If you go by your interpretation, _no_ OS can ever be able to comply, as
they just can't ever prevent somebody writing a proggie that (given access)
bangs whatever garbage it wants at whatever piece of hardware it wants to.
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