Re: [PATCH] 2.5.6 IDE 19

Vojtech Pavlik (vojtech@suse.cz)
Mon, 11 Mar 2002 23:02:50 +0100


On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 07:39:06PM +0000, 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 ?

That's all we need, yes. And I hope that's exactly what we'll have.

-- 
Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs
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