Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2010 15:57:39 +0100 From: Gerrit =?ISO-8859-1?Q?K=FChn?= <gerrit@pmp.uni-hannover.de> To: Jeremy Chadwick <freebsd@jdc.parodius.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: one more load-cycle-count problem Message-ID: <20100208155739.f2a51895.gerrit@pmp.uni-hannover.de> In-Reply-To: <20100208142259.GA3210@icarus.home.lan> References: <cf9b1ee01002080543m7a403a6ej1f25b88c47f18c68@mail.gmail.com> <20100208145504.762eaa7b.gerrit@pmp.uni-hannover.de> <cf9b1ee01002080556s4d6cc981sf17106692da701da@mail.gmail.com> <20100208142259.GA3210@icarus.home.lan>
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On Mon, 8 Feb 2010 06:22:59 -0800 Jeremy Chadwick <freebsd@jdc.parodius.com> 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
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