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SubjectRe: Microsoft ZERO Sector Virus, Result of Taskfile WAR
On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, James A. Sutherland wrote:

> > Jens we are not going there....the filter is the only way known to jam
> > unknown commands,
>
> Erm... the hoax "virus" was about writing to the first sector of the disk,
> overriding the partition table. If "write data" is an "unknown command",
> HTF am I supposed to store data on my HDD? :P

One-liner: It is stupid to issue a data-command using a non-data-handler.

Andre Hedrick
Linux ATA Development

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