Re: The big IDE fight in a different light

Matthew Dharm (mdharm-kernel@one-eyed-alien.net)
Fri, 21 Jul 2000 10:11:32 -0700

I can assure you he isn't the first person to discover a way to physically
destroy a disk via software. It's not hard.... I can think of 3 or 4 ways
to do it right off the top of my head.

The way I figure it, Andre is the expert on this topic. If he says that
his driver is allowing a violation of the spec which has some nasty
consequences, then we should listen to him.

I just wish I could help test his patch... but I don't have any machines
available for testing that... everything is allready allocated to other
products (or production environments).

Matt

On Fri, Jul 21, 2000 at 12:00:46PM -0500, Mike Castle wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 21, 2000 at 09:19:00AM -0700, Scott Long wrote:
> > 2.4. And no one in this office will, either. If all versions of Linux
> > are susceptible, maybe we'll look for a different OS where it is more
> > difficult to accomplish this damage. We cannot afford data destruction,
> > but even more importantly we CERTAINLY cannot afford having our disks
> > physically destroyed.
>
> What if there is no such OS, but rather a flaw in the whole hardware
> architecture design? Where do you run then?
>
> If Andre hadn't posted the code, someone eventually would had. It's not
> unfortunate he did that at all; but rather quite fortunate that he did.
> Because now it brings it out to the public. Do you really think he was the
> first one to notice this?
>
> mrc

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