Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 22 Jul 2000 20:43:57 +0200 (CEST) | From | Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <> | Subject | Re: disk-destroyer.c |
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On Sat, 22 Jul 2000, Khimenko Victor wrote: > >> What I tried to understand in between Andre's swearwords, is that you > >> can enable drives to access a full set of parameters ("taskfile") or > >> you can disable this. If you enable it, you can fry the drive. If you > >> disable it, you can't but you can still use the regular ATA command > >> set which is all that the kernel will ever need. > > > Yep. There's a big red self-destruct button on the drive. Either we leave > > it enabled, or switch it off. > > 1. We can not switch it off while retaining raw hardware access. > 2. We can make it inaccessible for someone without CAP_SYS_RAW by two lines > patch instead of 60K patch.
I think that 2. is the right thing... just my 0.05 zl (polish currency :)...
-- Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bkz@linux-ide.org>
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