Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Subject | Re: Undelete files on ext3 ?? | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | 07 Jan 2003 12:39:25 +0000 |
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On Tue, 2003-01-07 at 11:30, John Bradford wrote: > > > There is no simple way, no. > > What about IDE Taskfile access, it's help says something like it's the > > crown jewel of hard drive forensics. > > What *is* IDE Taskfile access exactly? > > I assumed it was a way of accessing a list of queued commands in the > device that had not been processed yet.
Its a more formalised interface to issue commands to the controller. Each IDE command has a series of phases you have to issue in the right order. The taskfile ioctls ensure you can issue pretty much any command safely
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