Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 16:38:58 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: brett@lariat.org (Brett Glass) Cc: adam@whizkidtech.net (G. Adam Stanislav), chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: M$ anti-trust case Message-ID: <200004251638.JAA02166@usr05.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <4.2.2.20000418072728.04695100@localhost> from "Brett Glass" at Apr 18, 2000 07:28:53 AM
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> >Wouldn't surprise me. Nevertheless, their "deep scan" is not as deep as > >Steve's. His deepest scan not only refreshes the data, it reformats the > >underlying hardware while doing it. > > He can only do this on MFM, RLL, and ESDI. He can't do it on SCSI or > IDE, because they don't allow him direct access to the hardware. FYI, you can directly access the hardware by obtaining a level 3 volume lock, then a level 1 volume lock, and then using a VXD to directly manipulate the raw driver interfaces. It's actually pretty trivial, even for Windows programming. C.v. "Partition Magic" for one example of a product that does this. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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