On 2/2/07, Alan <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Is there a way to detect RAID drives with this kind of timing, or does someone need to take a baseball bat into the standards committee meeting and add an identify field that gives command and "long command" timeouts in seconds ? If we can detect the "fast fail" drives (initially by say ident string components) lets do it and the people who care can buy the right product for the job.
Like many new features in disk drives or other products, they're often driven by a single or small set of large, paying customers to prove them out prior to being standardized. Given time, most eventually settle on common interfaces to reduce costs. This is a continuous process, the "concept -> development -> one customer -> standard feature" path. Unfortunately, you're right, it's very difficult for individuals to interact with some of the standards committees, and the exact working details (including detection) of these features are often not made public for competitive reasons in their initial offerings. --eric - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
