Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2011 16:16:22 +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: <CADLo838msT6=r34%2BATnhci0qcGHO-B9HqYtkz38qMVgP3uzpHg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <003101cc95ca$80ec8b60$82c5a220$@com> References: <4EAB2D38.4040200@feral.com> <a6ce5a46de726137f158b145db65f691@orthanc.ca> <003101cc95ca$80ec8b60$82c5a220$@com>
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On 29 Oct 2011 00:38, "Pegasus Mc Cleaft" <ken@mthelicon.com> wrote: > > >> The linux hdparm program is so paranoid about this that you have to us= e > >> extra arguments like "--yes-really-destroy-my-disk-drive" to do this. > > > >I concur. Loudly. The ability to brick your hardware is just too > >large to not make people go through the "I tell you three times" > >dance. It's not like people will do this often enough that the > >pain will be fatal. And if it is, they ought to be bright enough to > >know how to automate the process. > > > >--lyndon > > Hi Lyndon and group, > > I tend to disagree that there should be such argument antics > employed to protect an operation such as this. Being root should be the only > protection needed (of course, that's only my opinion). I don=92t want to have > to look up in a man page what magic token I need to add to prove to the > utility that I understand the consequences of what I am about to do. I > personally wouldn't mind a simple "Are you sure?" if the magic token is not > added on the command line, however. > > To me, the only difference between borking a drive because of bad > firmware and typing "rm -rf *" from root is about =A340. You still lose = at > least a day rebuilding/restoring everything. > You clearly haven't bought a hard drive recently. Chris
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