Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Mon, 24 Jul 2000 12:22:30 +0200 | | From | Vojtech Pavlik <> | | Subject | Re: disk-destroyer.c |
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On Mon, Jul 24, 2000 at 10:02:09AM +0100, James Sutherland wrote:
> Let's rephrase that a little more accurately, shall we? "Andre knows > perfectly well that MOST disks out there will have their warranty > invalidated by running software which allows unrestricted access to the > RESERVED vendor-specific functions in the ATA spec."
Not true. The warranty will be invalidated only after these vendor-specific commands are USED. Otherwise you'd get your warranty void just by running the drive under DOS/W9x, because they offer no protection at all.
These commands are firmware update, lowlevel format, get/set sector remapping and this stuff, and they're *very* useful - actually I revived a bunch of WD drives this way ... they were already too old for a WD serviceman to do this for free.
> Even MS protects their customers from this sort of damage. Failure to do > so is fscking stupid, dangerous, and likely to end up with dead penguins > lining the road. It's even possible that just running Linux on an IDE HDD > will void your warranty ATM - do you REALLY want that??
Not possible, really.
-- Vojtech Pavlik SuSE Labs
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