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On Thu, 09 Jan 2003 10:42:09 -0800, Gary Laatsch wrote: >The firmware update stuff is mostly used during development and qual cycles >at customer sites. Correct, most end users would never use the feature. >But it can be invaluable to someone like a TiVo or someone developing RAID >systems to not have to pull the drive(s) out, find a PC and do an FW update >than put the drives back if it ever is. And that is fine... I'm sure TiVo and those RAID designers have lots of NDAs with various drive manufacturers for the info that is needed to perform such firmware upgrades. You need those NDAs because you are not going to get the information any other way and you need to close contacts with the disk drive manufacturers because they change the firmware update methods all the time. Knowing the ATA commadn code(s) to use in order to update the firmware is probably only 10 percent of what you need to know. >Besides the reflector has been way to quiet.... Could that be because T13 really doesn't have a purpose anymore? I really wonder why, especially in this economy, companies continue to send people to the T13 meetings. Why do that when all the real work is done in various secret society meetings all under NDAs? Oh yea, I know why... Do you? *** Hale Landis *** www.ata-atapi.com ***
