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a) why not in original SATA or ATA/ATAPI-7

Specifically for Serial ATA, the SATA Revision 2.5 specification is a
single integration of Serial ATA 1.0a in addition to much of the Serial
ATA II material, including errata and design guides.  The ICRC update
was simply applied to SATA Revision 2.5 with the understanding that this
new specification would replace the older set of documentation, which
leads to little need to update the old documentation when it is getting
replaced.

b) the risk of using SATA that does not have this feature,
c) how are SATA CRC errors report by original SATA devices that did not
implement this feature?

The change was specific to allowing ICRC usage for reporting interface
CRC errors with Multi-word DMA and PIO protocols, previously it was only
allowed with the Ultra DMA protocol.  Since this behavior was not
allowed prior to the change for either PATA or SATA, the impact of
reporting interface CRC errors with these other protocols should not be
specific to the transport.  

Regards,
Brian

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Dees, Brian M wrote:
> This message is from the T13 list server.
> <BMD> To clarify, the original request for updating the T13 material
> with the ICRC information specific to this did propose both ATA/8
> changes AND errata material for ATA/7 - see doc e05133r0.

Thanks for the information. Looks good to me for future SATA. But the 
proposal doesn't answer the other questions: a) why not in original SATA

or ATA/ATAPI-7, b) the risk of using SATA that does not have this 
feature, c) how are SATA CRC errors report by original SATA devices that

did not implement this feature?

Hale

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