Messages in this thread |  | | From | "Daniela Engert" <> | Date | Wed, 26 Sep 2001 17:24:46 +0200 (CDT) |
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Hi!
As the developer of the OS/2 ATA/ATAPI drivers I'd like to add a few comments.
On Wed, 26 Sep 2001 16:16:13 +0200, Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote:
>3) Also, I have had contacts with Highpoint and Promise a long while now
I've learned Highpoint being very helpful but Promise being extremely tight-lipped.
> And quite frankly I have to laugh that you had to sign a NDA.
Good point!
> Promise and Highpoint Technologies were quite willing to hand us the > documentation without an NDA. We just felt it was the honourable > thing to do to not spread these docs. Call it a matter of trust and > mutual respect.
So did I with manufacturer docs I was given.
>4) 48-bit addressing is already in the pipeline since Soren has the > official specifications from the t13 Technical Committee [which for > all I know, are freely downloadable].
True. There are no secrets.
>For some reason I cannot help but put big questionmarks behind Andre's >exclamation that he was so quick to add ATA-100 after release of the >information. Congratulations to you Andre for being so quick, I hope >your eagerness for speed doesn't in fact put stability in jeopardy.
Exactly. Andre: your Promise Ultra100 TX2 code is not correct. It should not base vital decisions on contents of non-existent registers.
>Also, funny how you seem to funnel your anger or something to that >extent into making sure everything gets licensed in such a way that >others cannot use it. If that is the free software spirit you envision >then you scared me. The only, reasonable, thing Soren asked for was >proper attribution and credit of/for work he performed and work which >was put under a BSD License. To be honest, if a BSD (FreeBSD, NetBSD, >OpenBSD) would've used GPLd code and filed off the copyright we would've >seen a large rant about how unethical the BSD developers are, the pinko >commies!
Well, I had to learn Andre is using code that I had developped and given to him verbatim in his drivers without any credits. But I just don't care. If it's to the benefit of the Linux users (and probably even more) I'm happy with that.
My policy in helping other developers is something like tit-for-tat. Let's share information, let's share experiences (there are so many bugs/issues in the hardware to deal with), let's help each other!
Ciao, Dani
(The OS/2 ATA/ATAPI gal)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Daniela Engert, systems engineer at MEDAV GmbH Gräfenberger Str. 34, 91080 Uttenreuth, Germany Phone ++49-9131-583-348, Fax ++49-9131-583-11
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