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SubjectRe: [PATCH] 2.5.6 IDE 19
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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