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Subject: Re: Adding disk firmware programming capability to camcontrol
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On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 1:47 PM, Nima Misaghian <nmisaghian@sandvine.com> w=
rote:
> Hi,
>
> I have got code developed by Andre Albsmeier that is capable of
> programming firmware of hard drives from several vendors and =A0turned
> it into a camcontrol command.

+1

I took a look at your patch and it looks great.  I have worked on a
storage product before where there
was a requirement to reprogram the firmware of hard drives.  On tha product=
,
proprietary Windows tools had to be used.  It would have been nice to
be able to use camcontrol in FreeBSD.

I think the patch is fine in its current form.  Very few "regular
users" need to reprogram hard drive firmware.
It is a special administrative operation.

--=20
Craig Rodrigues
rodrigc@crodrigues.org