Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Direct access to hardware | From | Krzysztof Halasa <> | Date | 25 Jul 2000 23:48:58 +0200 |
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James Sutherland <jas88@cam.ac.uk> writes:
> Simply block all the non-ATA commands. These should never be issued by > anything other than a vendor diagnostics program - and if you're running > one of those, WTF are you doing in a multi-user desktop/server OS at the > time? The commands in question are very specialised and rare. The > manufacturer could just supply a boot image on their WWW site, containing > a simple OS (FreeDOS, cut down Linux, whatever) plus their utility.
You want me to shutdown entire machine just to update firmware on one of /pub disks (which I can umount and mount again)? And then you want me to mess with some boot images (should I connect FDD to this machine for just that?) rather than just rebooting the system and have it ready within a minute or two (if stupid disks need power-on reset)? -- Krzysztof Halasa Network Administrator
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