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    SubjectRe: [PATCH] 2.5.6 IDE 19
    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.

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    Vojtech Pavlik
    SuSE Labs
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