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Dees, Brian M wrote:
This message is from the T13 list server. In the Error register, the ABRT and ICRC bits should be set per updates that are included in latest drafts of ATA8-ACS. Updates have been made to the Interface CRC description to allow ICRC reporting for MWDMA and PIO, and additional notes have been added to the Error Outputs for all PIO data-in and PIO data-out commands to allow this.
Come on now... This is no time to be quiet about the serious data integrity problems that SATA has that no one has wanted to talk about for 2+ years.
Now it the time to publish the minutes of the SATAIO meetings where this issue has been discussed and explain why it has taken so long for the issue to be addressed. And the SATAIO membership owes an explaination to everyone that has purchased SATA equipment as to the serverity of this issue and what can be done about it - especially those that have SATA host controllers that are emulating a PATA host controller and may be running software (BIOS, OS, etc) that are unaware that the actual hardware is SATA.
At this point I don't think SATAIO can continue to cover up this issue. Hale -- ++ Hale Landis ++ www.ata-atapi.com ++
