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On Wed, 12 Feb 2003 09:35:13 -0800, Mukesh Kataria wrote: >This message is from the T13 list server. >1. I do intend to propose the availability of an HPA complaince tool >that can be used by disk drive manufacturers, OEM's etc. to validate the >HPA compliance of a disk drive. Do we have a problem here? If so, lets fix the ATA/ATAPI-x description of this feature. We don't have industry wide "compliance tests" for ATA - why do we need one now? But I have a different list of issues with this HPA thing: I have received lots of questions from people and companies attempting to use the HPA to hide software for various legitimate purposes (asset tracking seems to be a big one). I posted questions here on about how the HPA can be used by these "third party" software companies (questions like if the HPA is changed by the addtion of some software product, does that void the computer's warrenty?") but I never received answers to these questions. I look forward to any new PARTIES document and/or additional comments from anyone about the use of the HPA. Hale *** Hale Landis *** www.ata-atapi.com ***
