[t13] December T13 Plenary Meeting Location (12th, 13th, 14th)

Dear T13 Reflector Member: The December 12, 13, 14, 2006 T13 Plenary meeting #62 will be held at the Aladdin Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas Nevada. There is no room block so please stay where you wish. A quick check of the Aladdin web site shows rooms in the $110 range. The Paris and Bally's

[t13] T13 Agenda

Dear Reflector member: Please note that the times listed in draft agenda r0 are wrong. Our meeting starts on Tuesday. I've re-ordered the agenda and added starting times for topics. I will not start the item until the time listed. If an agenda item runs short I plan to fill in the gap with

[t13] Definition for Allocation Unit Size

Dear T13 Reflector Member: I took the task at the last meeting to define Allocation Unit, which is used in the Configure Stream Command. The purpose of this parameter is to tell the drive how large the contiguous regions (clusters) of data are, so the drive can do read ahead to the end of

[t13] T13 2006 5 year Renew/Withdraw Decisions

Dear T13 Reflector Members: The renewal or withdrawal of these standards/technical reports will be voted on at the meeting next week. Since they require a 2/3 vote I plan to discuss them Tuesday morning. Protected Area Run Time Interface Extension Services (PARTIES) BIOS Enhanced Disk Drive

[t13] T13 Standards Up for Renewal/Withdrawal This Year

Dear T13 Reflector Member: The following T13 standards are up for renewal or withdrawal this year: PARTIES EDD Address Offset Boot Method TR We will vote on our recommendation to INCTIS at the February meeting as the recommendation is due by the end of March. TC: T13 - ATA Storage

[t13] Reflector Clean Up

Dear T13 Reflector Member: Due to address list management issues we will be cleaning up the [EMAIL PROTECTED] reflector subscriber list. I will send out another message on December 20 after the clean up has been done. If you do not receive the message or notice you are not receiving [EMAIL

[t13] HBA Amendment and ATA8-AAM Letter Ballot Results

Dear T13 Reflector Member: The results of the HBA Amendment and ATA8-AAM letter ballots have been posted. Both passed. See: http://www.t13.org/docs2005/e05021r0-HBA_Amendment_Vote_Summary%20.pdf No comments http://www.t13.org/docs2005/e05023r0-ATA8-AAM_Vote_Summary%20.pdf A number of comments

[t13] IDEMA Symposium Dec 6 Announcement

Dear T13 Reflector Member: IDEMA is sponsoring a symposium on December 6, 2005 at the Four Points Sheraton Hotel in Sunnyvale, CA which addresses four key factors in HDD design and operation: Electronics, Interfaces, Long Data Sectors, and Reliability. Since you attended an IDEMA symposium

[t13] October Meeting Announcement

The October T13 meeting is confirmed for Las Vegas. Location: Monte Carlo Hotel 3770 Las Vegas Blvd., South Las Vegas, NV 89109 PH: (702) 730-7400 FX: (702) 730-7410 Toll Free: 1-800-311-5999 x-7400 www.montecarlo.com Days: Oct 18-21 We have not done any room blocks for this

[t13] T13 August Minutes Posted

The T13 August Minutes have been posted at: http://www.t13.org/docs2005/e05156r0_August_Minutes.pdf Best Regards, Daniel J. Colegrove Hitachi Global Storage Technologies [EMAIL PROTECTED] (702) 614-6119

[t13] Documents Revised at or since the T13 Meeting Last Week

I have posted the following documents to the web site. Authors, please check your documents. Some documents still have spaces in their titles. I expect to fix all the ones I can find by the end of the week. Document authors are strongly encouraged to follow the file name convention:

[t13] Names List for SCT TR Doc

This message is from the T13 list server. This is the list I have for participants in the development of the SCT Technical Report. If you are not on the list and would like to be please send me a note by the end of today. Technical Committee T13 on ATA Interfaces, that reviewed this

Re: [t13] Read Look Ahead

This message is from the T13 list server. Hale, I have always thought that the reason to turn read look ahead off was to increase read cache performance. If there is an application that frequently re-reads recently read data then you want the largest possible read cache. By turning read

[t13] T13 Agenda Rev 2 Posted

This message is from the T13 list server. Dear T13 Reflector Member: I've posted rev 2 of the agenda for next week. We have a few set time agenda items: 2pm Tuesday: Security and Secure Erasure (Dr. Hughes is coming in from UCSD) 1pm Thursday: Joint meeting with SATA-IO board to discuss

RE: [t13] WRITE LONG, SCT Write Long, and WRITE WRONG EXT

This message is from the T13 list server. Bob, The ability to recover whatever data is available after an error uncorrectable by ECC is provided by the ATA Streaming Command Set. You can set the time limit and ask for the partially correct data. See the Read Stream and Write Stream

[t13] Rev 1 of T13 Agenda Posted

This message is from the T13 list server. I've posted a new revison of the June meeting agenda. It is linked from the word agenda in the meetings section. Best Regards, Daniel J. Colegrove Hitachi Global Storage Technologies

[t13] June Meeting Agenda Posted

This message is from the T13 list server. Dear T13 Reflector Member: I've posted the preliminary June meeting agenda on the web site. (see Meeting section) Please let me know if you have any additional items for the agenda. Reminder: This is a 3.5 day meeting. Best Regards, Daniel J.

[t13] Teleconference 6/2 T13/SATA-IO Doc. Plan Ad Hoc

This message is from the T13 list server. Dear T13 Forum List Subscriber: The minutes of the May 12 T13/SATA-IO Documentation Plan proposal ad hoc teleconference are posted (e05135r0). T13 will hold a 2nd ad hoc teleconference to discuss the T13/SATA-IO Documentation Plan (e05134r1). June

[t13] Trotz Stellenabbau

This message is from the T13 list server. Lese selbst: http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/0,1518,338652,00.html

[t13] Transparenz ist das Mindeste

This message is from the T13 list server. Lese selbst: http://www.npd.de/npd_info/deutschland/2005/d0405-39.html

[t13] Paranoider Deutschenmoerder kommt in Psychiatrie

This message is from the T13 list server. Lese selbst: http://brandenburg.rz.fhtw-berlin.de/poetschke.html

[t13] Deutsche werden kuenftig beim Arzt abgezockt

This message is from the T13 list server. Lese selbst: http://globalfire.tv/nj/03de/politik/fruehtod_reform.htm EU-Abgeordnete goennen sich luxurioese Vollversorgung: http://www.rp-online.de/public/article/nachrichten/politik/ausland/85804 Deutsche Krankenversicherungen muessen fuer

[t13] T13/SATA-IO Doc Proposal First Draft Posted

This message is from the T13 list server. Dear T13 Reflector Member: I've posted a first draft of a proposal for the working relationship between SATA-IO and T13 documents. I want to stress that it is just a first draft and it will probably be modified substantially before we get to a final

[t13] Teleconference: T13/SATA-IO Documentation Plan proposal to SATA-IO

This message is from the T13 list server. Dear T13 Reflector Member: T13 will hold a teleconference from 1pm to 3pm PDT on Thursday May 12, 2005 to discuss the T13/SATA-IO Documentation Plan proposal. If you plan to participate RSVP to me. Call in number: 1-866-624-9391 Passcode: 85651 A

[t13] April meeting minutes posted

This message is from the T13 list server. The April meeting minutes are posted at: http://www.t13.org/docs2005/e05126r0-April_Plenary_Minutes.pdf Many thanks to Mark Evans for volunteering to take the minutes. Best Regards, Daniel J. Colegrove Hitachi Global Storage Technologies [EMAIL

[t13] T13 File Name Conventions First Draft (e05116r0)

This message is from the T13 list server. Dear T13 Reflector Member: I have posted a e05116r0 File Name Conventions to the web site. Please let me know if it is not clear or if you have additional suggestions. During the last plenary there was a discussion of the abbreviations to be used

[t13] SCT names

This message is from the T13 list server. Dear T13 Reflector Subcriber: This is the names list for the SCT Technical report front matter. If you or someone you know who should be on this list please send me a note by the end of the day (3/29/05). Technical Committee T13 on ATA Interfaces,

[t13] February Meeting Minutes Now Official

This message is from the T13 list server. Dear T13 Reflector Member: The February meeting minutes have been posted as document number e05111r0. Best Regards, Daniel J. Colegrove Hitachi Global Storage Technologies [EMAIL PROTECTED] (702) 614-6119

[t13] December meeting minutes posted.

This message is from the T13 list server. The December meeting minutes doc file has been posted. The delay was my fault as I didn't get them to INCITS until after the holidays. The PDF will be posted soon. Best Regards, Daniel J. Colegrove Hitachi Global Storage Technologies [EMAIL

[t13] Problem in ATA/ATAPI-7 Figure 67 added to Meeting Agenda

This message is from the T13 list server. Dear T13 Reflector Member: An error was found in figure 67 of ATA/ATAPI-7. According to INCITS procedures we need to vote on whether this is an editorial or substantive change at next week's meeting. The agenda will be updated accordingly. Best

[t13] Names on EDD-3 Standard

This message is from the T13 list server. Dear T13 Reflector List Member: The EDD-3 Standard is about to be forwarded to INCITS for fist public review. I have the following names to be listed on the participants page. If you beleive you or someone else has been left off please let me know

[t13] SCT Vote Summary with Comments Posted

This message is from the T13 list server. I've posted the results of the SCT letter ballot. 15 yes, 5 no, 0 abstain, 1 not returned. The vote results and comments are in file e04042r0-SCT_Vote_Summary.doc. Samsung returned their comments as a marked up document. It is

[t13] December Agenda Posted

This message is from the T13 list server. Dear T13 Reflector Member: I've posted the preliminary December agenda in the meeting notice section. It is a doc file as I am unable to make PDF's with the computer I have with me on vacation. I will be back in the office on Thursday. Please

[t13] Rules Subdirectory now on Web Site

This message is from the T13 list server. Dear T13 Reflector Subscriber: I was asked me to add web site links to the files in the rules directory on the FTP site. The rules directory holds committee standing rule documents, procedures and guidelines. Many of these documents are seriously

[t13] Names for Time Limited Commands TR front matter

This message is from the T13 list server. Dear T13 Forum Subscriber: This is the list of names of participants in the development of DT1696 Time Limited Commands. If you are not on the list and wish to be added or know of someone that should be added please send me a note at [EMAIL

[t13] TLC Forwarding Ballot Passes

This message is from the T13 list server. Dear T13 Reflector Member: The Time Limited Commands Technical Report Letter Ballot passed 15 yes, 0 no, 3 abstaining, 3 not voting. There was a comment from an abstaining voter. See the vote summary at:

[t13] TLC Vote Result Correction

This message is from the T13 list server. Dear T13 Reflector Member: I recorded Samsung's vote incorrectly. Samsung voted no, with no comments, on the TLC ballot. The outcome of the vote is the unchanged. The corrected vote summary is.

[t13] ATA/ATAPI-7 INCITS Public Review Schedule

This message is from the T13 list server. Dear T13 Forum member: Due to a communication error on my part the ATA/ATAPI-7 INCITS public review has not yet started. The public review will be from 2004-07-16 to 2004-08-30. Best Regards, Daniel J. Colegrove Hitachi Global Storage Technologies

[t13] August meeting info (Book now as Boulder gets busy in late August)

This message is from the T13 list server. The next T13 meeting, held August 24th thru 26th, will be held in Boulder Colorado at the Boulderado Hotel. For hotel information visit www.boulderado.com Directions from DIA: Exit the airport on Pena Blvd. Continue until you reach I-70 West. Take

[t13] April Minutes Posted

This message is from the T13 list server. Dear T13 Reflector Member: The April meeting minutes are posted. Spaces in the new long file names are causing problems for some users. Please use underscore _ in place of spaces in document names. Best Regards, Daniel J. Colegrove Hitachi Global

[t13] Policy Chagnges (3 Day Meetings, File Names)

This message is from the T13 list server. Dear T13 Reflector Member: At the last meeting we decided to change two policies. Unless otherwise indicated in the meeting notice plenary meetings will go back to 3 days from 2.5 (9am to 5pm each day). We will start the new 3 full day schedule at

[t13] Participants in the development of ATA/ATAPI-7

This message is from the T13 list server. Dear T13 Reflector Member This is the list of people I have down as participating in the development of ATA/ATAPI-7. If you or anyone you know should also be on this list please send me a note. Andre Hedrick Arie Krantz Ben Chang Bob Davis Conrad

[t13] February Minutes Approved and posted

This message is from the T13 list server. The February minutes have been approved by INCITS. They are posted as e04114r0 The email archive mentioned on the reflector is not official so I haven't linked it from the web site. We can discuss the merits of doing so at the next meeting under the

[t13] Letter Ballot Forwarding ATA/ATAPI-7 Results (Passed Unanimously)

This message is from the T13 list server. Dear T13 Reflector Member: The Letter Ballot Forwarding ATA/ATAPI-7 Results: passed unanimously. I am collating the comments received. I will put the comments doc on the web site by the end of the day. (e04104r0) We will discuss the comments at the

[t13] Download Microcode to a Locked Drive?

This message is from the T13 list server. Dear T13 Reflector Member: It has come to my attention that the table describing the commands that may be performed when a drive is locked by the security system includes the Download Microcode command. I think that this is an error as the last

[t13] December Plenary Meeting Draft Minutes

This message is from the T13 list server. Dear T13 Reflector Member: This is the TXT version of the December draft minutes. Some formatting information has been lost from the original .doc file. The .doc and .pdf version is on the web site (www.t13.org) ATA/ATAPI-7 revision 3g and revision

[t13] Results of Time Limited Letter Ballot e03023r0

This message is from the T13 list server. Dear T13 Primary or Alternate: I apologize for the tardiness of this notification of the results of ballot e03023r0. I wanted to be sure I understood and followed the correct INCITS RD-2 and Robert's Rules of Order procedure before reporting the

[t13] December Agenda Posted

This message is from the T13 list server. The preliminary agenda is up on the web site at the December meeting announcement link. Best Regards, Daniel J. Colegrove Hitachi Global Storage Technologies [EMAIL PROTECTED] (702) 614-6119

[t13] RSVP for December Meeting

This message is from the T13 list server. I would like to get a count of room nights for the December meeting. If you are planning to attend please send me a note with the dates you will be staying at the meeting location hotel (Bally's Las Vegas). Thanks, Best Regards, Daniel J.

[t13] Web Site Status

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[t13] SATA II Question 8 (UL Testing Requirements)

This message is from the T13 list server. Question 8 to the SATA II Working Group was discussed at the Cab/Con working group teleconference. The consensus was that the current specification was unnecessarily tight and should be changed to 'complies with UL 94v-1 or better' and not refer to UL

[t13] October Meeting Agenda Posted to www.t13.org

This message is from the T13 list server. I've posted the preliminary agenda for the October meeting. It is attached to the meeting notice. Best Regards, Daniel J. Colegrove Hitachi Global Storage Technologies [EMAIL PROTECTED] (702) 614-6119

[t13] Sept 4 teleconference Meeting Minutes Posted

This message is from the T13 list server. The September 4 Meeting Minutes have been posted to the web site (e03136r0) Best Regards, Dan Colegrove

[t13] August Plenary Meeting Minutes

This message is from the T13 list server. Dear T13 Forum Subscriber: These are the meeting minutes from the August 2003 Plenary meeting. The doc and pdf version will be posted on www.t13.org Best Regards, Dan Colegrove [EMAIL PROTECTED] Document Number:T13/e03133r0

Re: [t13] ATA7 Volume 3b PDF now posted

This message is from the T13 list server. PDF now on the web site. DC [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/13/2003 09:48 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: [t13] ATA7 Volume 3b now

[t13] Bad E-Mails getting through on Forum@t13.org

This message is from the T13 list server. The reflector is set up to only forward mail from subscribers and I cut off anyone who abuses the reflector. Some viruses attempt to propagate themselves by sending themselves to e-mail addresses they find on the systems they are attacking. This

[t13] July Ad Hoc Meeting Announcement

This message is from the T13 list server. Please plan on attending the T-13 add hoc meeting July 31st and Aug.1st, 2003 Planned review of the ATA 7, (Serial ATA) Vol 3 Hosted by Seagate Technology @

[t13] Please RSVP for Editing Ad Hoc Meeting July 31-August 1

This message is from the T13 list server. Dear T13 Forum List Member: If you are planning to attend the editing meeting at Seagate Longmont on July 31-August 1 please RSVP to Jim Hatfield at:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Seagate needs a count of attendees. Best Regards, Dan Colegrove

[t13] Chairmanship now official

This message is from the T13 list server. T13 Forum List Members: I received official notification of my appointment as T13 Chairman from INCITS. We need a new vice chairman. The vice chairman's only official duty is to fill in for the chairman in his absence. Traditionally the vice

[t13] Ad Hoc Meeting Minutes Posted

This message is from the T13 list server. Dear T13 Reflector Members: I placed the Ad Hoc Meeting Minutes on the web site as document e03119r0. Best Regards, Dan Colegrove [EMAIL PROTECTED]