From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 8 14:57:43 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF8D51065794 for ; Mon, 8 Feb 2010 14:57:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gerrit@pmp.uni-hannover.de) Received: from mrelay1.uni-hannover.de (mrelay1.uni-hannover.de [130.75.2.106]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 232E78FC0C for ; Mon, 8 Feb 2010 14:57:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from www.pmp.uni-hannover.de (www.pmp.uni-hannover.de [130.75.117.2]) by mrelay1.uni-hannover.de (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id o18EvdND023819; Mon, 8 Feb 2010 15:57:41 +0100 Received: from pmp.uni-hannover.de (arc.pmp.uni-hannover.de [130.75.117.1]) by www.pmp.uni-hannover.de (Postfix) with SMTP id A9E5D4F; Mon, 8 Feb 2010 15:57:39 +0100 (CET) Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2010 15:57:39 +0100 From: Gerrit =?ISO-8859-1?Q?K=FChn?= To: Jeremy Chadwick Message-Id: <20100208155739.f2a51895.gerrit@pmp.uni-hannover.de> In-Reply-To: <20100208142259.GA3210@icarus.home.lan> References: <20100208145504.762eaa7b.gerrit@pmp.uni-hannover.de> <20100208142259.GA3210@icarus.home.lan> Organization: Albert-Einstein-Institut (MPI =?ISO-8859-1?Q?f=FCr?= Gravitationsphysik & IGP =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Universit=E4t?= Hannover) X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.7.1 (GTK+ 2.18.4; i386-portbld-freebsd7.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-PMX-Version: 5.5.9.388399, Antispam-Engine: 2.7.2.376379, Antispam-Data: 2010.2.8.144231 Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: one more load-cycle-count problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:57:43 -0000 On Mon, 8 Feb 2010 06:22:59 -0800 Jeremy Chadwick wrote about Re: one more load-cycle-count problem: JC> The DOS utilities submit custom ATA CMDs or data to all WD disks to JC> toggle or adjust these features. If someone could figure out what the JC> command(s) were, the feature(s) could be implemented into atacontrol JC> (8). Of course, that would require reverse-engineering of the EXEs, JC> which would probably induce DMCA-related lawsuits (in the US). Sad JC> too, since documentation of said feature(s) would improve customer JC> satisfaction. But hey, I'm just an engineer, what do I know. :-))) I would really prefer to be able to set this stuff via camcontrol or atacontrol. Alone having to boot DOS with this machine (no floppy, no cdrom) will be a real pain. And most probably the DOS tool will not be able to see the disks sitting behind my lsi-driven controller anyway, so I have to plug them elsewhere, too. Great job, WD. :-( cu Gerrit