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[ BC [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] > Subject: Re: [t13] ATA/ATAPI-8 suggestions list (resend) > > > Could Serial ATAPI force the standard set of > > ATAPI calls ? > > I leave that question open. Does this issue lie outside of the t10/t13 charters? "The delightful thing about standards is that we have so many to choose from." I agree the lack of an MMC compliance test published under GPL injures interoperability. Microsoft publishes a WHQL test that may help more than it hurts, hard to tell without source. I agree that achieving interoperability without a GPL compliance test grows more difficult for all of us over time, as more people invest more into incompatible, though reasonable, interpretations of the merely public paper fictions. Also we're hurt more now as people build hosts that survive for more than a few years. Takes more work to discover how to design a device to work with Win XP/ 2K/ NT/ ME/ 98/ 95 and also WHQL than to design the device to work with only 98/ 95. On the other hand, we're helped by internet insecurity forcing people to web-upgrade their host software. Pat LaVarre
