>>>>> "James" == James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: James> The problem, which ata_ram also suffers, is that the tools we James> most need to test are the ones for manipulating non volatile James> characteristics (like partition tables). We'd really like the James> disk contents to survive reboot for this ... Yeah, I should add that I wanted persistence too. I went through a whole stack (well, 5-6 or so) fibre channel drives from various vendors and attempted to low-level format them to 4KB sectors. Most of them laughed in my face. One of them tried to comply and irreparably confused its firmware in the process. Just yesterday I received a couple of prototype drives in the mail. I'll ask the vendor whether they support 4KB and if so I'll give them a whirl. -- Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering -- 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
