Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 11 Mar 2002 22:06:19 +0000 | From | Anton Altaparmakov <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] 2.5.6 IDE 19 |
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At 19:39 11/03/02, Alan Cox wrote: > > 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 ?
No, AFAIK.
You need to be able to tell the kernel not to touch the drive during the testing or a lot of fun things might happen... (I would assume.)
Oh and I was brain dead when I wrote what DFT stands for. Sorry. It is of course DFT = Drive Fitness Test and the DFT utility boot floppy I mentioned can be downloaded from: http://www.storage.ibm.com/hdd/support/download.htm
Anton
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