Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] 2.5.6 IDE 19 | Date | Mon, 11 Mar 2002 19:39:06 +0000 (GMT) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> The idea behind native DFT is to be able to perform drive diagnostics from > within the OS without rebooting with a DOS disk and tying up the system > for hours during the checks. The advantages of this combined with IDE/SCSI > hot swap are strikingly obvious...
So providing we have a properly generic "issue IDE command from user space" do we need any more kernel magic for this ? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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