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Right! > From: don clay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Organization: old blue goose designs > Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 13:37:15 -0700 > To: ata reflector <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [t13] ATA Drive firmware update. > > This message is from the T13 list server. > > > In the 28 years that I've known Hale, I have never seen him BS anyone. > As a matter of fact, I've seen him go way out of his way to get the facts > straight. > > 01/10/03 12:28:31 PM, Thomas Colligan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> This message is from the T13 list server. >> >> >> >> >> You get what you pay for. If an individual buys junk, an then complains >> about their junky CD drive, then Duh! Again your back pedaling. In > some >> circles it is called BS. >> >> >> >>> From: Hale Landis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> Reply-To: Hale Landis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2003 22:03:36 -0700 >>> To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> Subject: Re: [t13] ATA Drive firmware update. >>> >>> This message is from the T13 list server. >>> >>> >>> On Thu, 09 Jan 2003 16:45:58 -0800, Thomas Colligan wrote: >>>> This message is from the T13 list server. >>>> You really do not know. Your back pedaling. >>> >>> You are partly right... I don't know what percentage of CD/DVD > drives >>> that ship worldwide each year that support firmware upgrades. Do > you >>> know? >>> >>> But if this was a common feature of CD and DVD drives then I would >>> think you would be able to look at a drive's ID data or the drive's >>> printed label or the drive's PCB or the drive's chipset and determine >>> who made it so you could find their web site and find the firmware >>> upgrade software. >>> >>> I assume your company ships only drives that support firmware >>> upgrades, and that is probably good, probably not necessary, but >>> probably good. But just because your company ships a few million > of >>> the 200 million (or more) CD/DVD drives each year I'm not sure you >>> are seeing a very good cross section of the products that are >>> shipping worldwide. >>> >>> Sure, I only see a few drives each year. Most are the cheapest thing >>> you can buy at the local computer store so my sample size is not > very >>> valid either. >>> >>> As someone else said here: If you are looking at the first few >>> thousand of a product then don't be surprised if they support >>> firmware upgrade while for the rest of the product life that feature >>> does not exist. Except when selling product to a company like yours >>> that wants features that may never be used, there is no need to >>> continue support for a feature that will never be used. Firmware >>> updating is a real good example of this - once the firmware is >>> "debugged" enough to run most of the time with Windows the > firmware >>> flash chip can be replaced with a ROM chip on the next 10 million >>> drives! >>> >>> Hale >>> >>> >>> >>> *** Hale Landis *** www.ata-atapi.com *** >>> >>> >>> >> >> > > >
