On Sun, 06 Jan 2008 12:25:10 -0800 Linda Walsh <lkml@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Robert Hancock wrote: > > > > If this is a Seagate, I believe that they don't have AAM enabled on > > any of their newer drives (something about a lawsuit for patent > > infringement on that feature, or something). Quite likely they don't > > support that power management command, either. > -- > Do you have a source for this -- haven't heard of such a conflict -- There were patent questions around AAM. There are some discussions on the t13 archive then it goes silent and nothing is ever said again, which I imagine is when it got lawyered. > besides, doesn't > ATA-7 require some of those functions? No. Alan - 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
