Re: ATA-6 Draft Proposal Changes for "vender-unique".

From: Marc Lehmann (pcg@goof.com)
Date: Mon Jul 24 2000 - 17:31:20 EST


On Mon, Jul 24, 2000 at 02:49:53PM -0700, Andre Hedrick <andre@linux-ide.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Marc Lehmann wrote:
>
> > So why must an ata standard try to regulate something that simply is
> > outside of it's scope?
>
> It is not

But why? I really don't see the difference between ata and any other
standard.

> because you have no business turning on "vender-unique"

"you"?

> Since I am representing Linux on this committee, it is best that the
> standard conform generic and not specific. Thus this is a generic conform
> request.

Of course, forcing something like this is much better in the end - as it
"standardizes" vendor-specific commands in a way that allows an ever safer
migration path for the future.

> All the ATA-X means is that new drives must conform, and that drives that
> are older general assumed to have died, IMHO.

Woaw. How far away from reality ;)

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