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On Wed, 20 Mar 2002 17:24:25 -0700, don clay wrote: >This message is from the T13 list server. >So if this statement by Jim McGrath is true, > taking no action is always the safest thing for the industry. >Why were the R/W Long commands made obsolete in the first place? Because... These commands were becomming less and less useful for actual ECC testing, because they had a funny protocol that no one could agree on (by 1997 there were many different implementations for the transfer of the ECC bytes) and ... I don't recall that anyone could put up a good argument (an argument that would change votes in T13) for keeping the commands. You must remember that if no OS uses the command, the command is likely to disappear over time. I think most people thought then (and continue to think) that this functionality, if supported by a drive, is the reason we have "vendor specific" commands. *** Hale Landis *** www.ata-atapi.com ***
