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As someone who has to cope with these devices in a driver, I agree with Hale.
There are some weird devices out there.
But I suppose I shouldn't complain. If all the devices out there complied with
the spec, I'd be out of a job. Well, not really. Maybe I could put some time
into taking advantage of things like the SMART, overlapped, and queued feature
sets to improve our performance and reliability.
It would be impolitic for me to name names, but some of the devices and
controllers I've had to deal with are just plain *weird*.
Hale Landis wrote:
> And I also agree [with Bruce Adler], .... Many
> ATAPI drives that have these problems can be found in your local
> computer store and they will have various "logos" on the box giving
> the buyer the impression that the devices have passed some kind of
> minimum qualification test. ...
> The problem is that these crappy drives work with the "most
> popular OS"... why that is I do not know. I can only guess that the
> OS ATA/ATAPI drivers in the "most popular OS" must have huge amounts
> of code to recover from the strange status and protocol of these
> crappy drives.
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The truth is out there. It's just not indexed very well.
I don't make policy for Sun.
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