From: "James Sutherland" <jas88@cam.ac.uk>
> What functionality? Remember, only the commands which should NEVER be
> issued except as part of a low-level diagnostic or maintenance procedure.
> Since nothing should ever issue these commands anyway except the vendor's
> own software, no functionality is being lost by disabling them, except for
> that software, which can be adapted to work around that problem in a way
> which will also improve it significantly.
The functionality of being able to flash running hardware.
The thread about having an OS independent disk from
the vendor is nice, but requires downtime. Not everyone
can afford downtime.
..Stu
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