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Michael,
PARTIES-2 proposal:
The orginal PARTIES spec used to be on the Phoenix
website. I don't know if it is still there or if anyone from Phoenix is
even maintaining that stuff anymore. I know the ones who used to are no
longer there. I would assume that Mukesh would be able to answer that (he
has taken over T13 for Phoenix and is handling PARTIES-2).
gkl
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Sent: Friday, April 04, 2003 7:17
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Subject: RE: [t13] PARTIES-2
Will
someone please remind me what the document numbers for PARTIES and
PARTIES-2 are? Thanks, MKE.
Folks,
I have been reading
through the PARTIES-2 spec and it raised a question in my head (i guess it
would really exist regardless of PARTIES). It seems that in the future
if someone goes out and purchases a new hard drive for their system at Fry's
and installs it that they could potentially loose funtionality in their
system or even worse, it may not work at all. Isnt this kind of scary
or am I misunderstanding what people are thinking about putting into
HPA's? If someone buys a harddrive will they be required to send it to
the motherboard folks to load some hidden BIOS funtions on it. There
is no way the drive manufacturer can PRELOAD a retail drive since they dont
know what or whose system it is going into. Maybe this has already
been discussed at the meetings (I dont see mention of it in the
minutes). Like I said, just tossing that thought out there, I might be
misunderstanding what I am reading.
have fun,
gary laatsch
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