At 11:34 PM -0500 9/22/03, Wolford, Jeff wrote:
> The whole premise of transparency is more or less a farce. It's morelike 90% translucent.JWW> And I am describing another piece of that missing 10% so we are in violent agreement.
Jeff
Yup.
Another problem with this transparency nonsense has to do with P<->S bridges. They are supposed to be "invisible." As someone who's written a lot of drivers, I hate "invisible" things. For drivers, 10% difference usually means starting over, right down to the makefile. Nothing is ever completely invisible, else Captain Kirk's Enterprise would have been shot down long ago. :)
There REALLY needs to be a means to discover whether sata-bridge is in line with parallel device on a serial ATA bus. Too many of these situations need to be dealt with by driver software to assert various work-arounds and what not. For example, ATAPI on a sata-bridge. Eek.
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