James Sutherland <jas88@cam.ac.uk> writes:
> Simply block all the non-ATA commands. These should never be issued by
> anything other than a vendor diagnostics program - and if you're running
> one of those, WTF are you doing in a multi-user desktop/server OS at the
> time? The commands in question are very specialised and rare. The
> manufacturer could just supply a boot image on their WWW site, containing
> a simple OS (FreeDOS, cut down Linux, whatever) plus their utility.
You want me to shutdown entire machine just to update firmware on
one of /pub disks (which I can umount and mount again)? And then you
want me to mess with some boot images (should I connect FDD to this
machine for just that?) rather than just rebooting the system and have
it ready within a minute or two (if stupid disks need power-on reset)?
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