Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 21 Jul 2000 10:11:32 -0700 | From | Matthew Dharm <> | Subject | Re: The big IDE fight in a different light |
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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
-- Matthew Dharm Home: mdharm@one-eyed-alien.net Senior Engineer, QCP Inc. Work: mdharm@qcpi.com
C: They kicked your ass, didn't they? S: They were cheating! -- The Chief and Stef User Friendly, 11/19/1997
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