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> A disk drive really needs only four commands: > identify yourself, read data, write data > and maybe go to low power mode. > > forget about making simple products that are reliable. For software written at a level that ignores how the storage is attached, little more than this works consistently, if this much. "Identify yourself" includes saying how big the disk is, saying when it is present. Asking to eject the disk works more often than asking for low power mode. Pat LaVarre
