Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2011 16:47:10 +0000 From: Chris Rees <utisoft@gmail.com> To: Pegasus Mc Cleaft <ken@mthelicon.com> Cc: mj@feral.com, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, "Lyndon Nerenberg \(VE6BBM/VE7TFX\)" <lyndon@orthanc.ca> Subject: RE: Adding disk firmware programming capability to camcontrol Message-ID: <CADLo838yDQQ_epe8XorCJ6=qp9k1HPsGNWLve-gm7XrmB_Cgtg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <000e01cc9b0f$6dfacef0$49f06cd0$@com> References: <4EAB2D38.4040200@feral.com> <a6ce5a46de726137f158b145db65f691@orthanc.ca> <003101cc95ca$80ec8b60$82c5a220$@com> <CADLo838msT6=r34%2BATnhci0qcGHO-B9HqYtkz38qMVgP3uzpHg@mail.gmail.com> <000e01cc9b0f$6dfacef0$49f06cd0$@com>
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On 4 Nov 2011 16:33, "Pegasus Mc Cleaft" <ken@mthelicon.com> wrote: > > >> > >> To me, the only difference between borking a drive because of > >> bad firmware and typing "rm -rf *" from root is about =A340. You stil= l > >> lose at least a day rebuilding/restoring everything. > >> > > > >You clearly haven't bought a hard drive recently. > > > >Chris > > Laughs! > > Yea, trust karma to insert my foot into my mouth when I open it to > speak 8-) > Never mind ;) I do take issue with this viewpoint however; in documentation this is the difference between Caution (you may lose data) and Warning (you may break your hardware). Why should the software be inconsistent with the hardware? I think an option *specifically for this task* would be useful as confirmation. I'm really sorry for bikeshedding; the code and idea is excellent, but I feel this issue is important! Chris
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