>>>>> "Doug" == Douglas Gilbert <dougg@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: Doug> Work on SAT-2 is now underway and one of the agenda items is Doug> "end to end data protection" and is in the hands of the t13 Doug> ATA8-ACS technical editor. So it looks like data integrity is on Doug> the radar in the SATA world. It's cool that it's on the radar in terms of the protocol. That doesn't mean that drive manufacturers are going to implement it, though. The ones I've talked to were unwilling to sacrifice capacity because that's the main competitive factor in the SATA/consumer space. Maybe we'll see it in the nearline product ranges? That would be a good start... -- Martin K. Petersen http://mkp.net/ - 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
