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The ATA standard was originally created to document actual implementations
so people could use it as a guide in their implementations. Afterall, if it
had been designed from scratch it would never look like this :-).
So if a significant number of people get something "wrong" and ship it, it
has to be noted. Ideally people can work around it without negative impacts
on other things, but that may not be possible.
The nice thing about this is that innovation is driven by actual product
developments rather than by theoretical conceptions of "nice to have" stuff.
But the downside is that sometimes you get a real mess on your hands.
Ultimately I think everyone wants to ship "good" products. But often there
is not enough, or not enough rigorous, testing done. Maybe Hale wants to
pitch his compliance testing proposal again?
Jim
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From: John Gilmore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 1:52 PM
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Subject: [temp t13] Re: Read Native Max in ATA/ATAPI-6
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I have to say I agree with Andre. You guys just pile kludges on top
of kludges on top of kludges. I heard a rumor that this was a
standards committee, not a junkyard.
Let's see: Some BIOSes might not handle the previous wording of the
standard properly, so rather than fix those BIOSes (nobody seems to
be naming any names here) let's change all future disk drives to
subtract 1 from the maximum block count?
John
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