Re: Hotswap ATA status ?

[Andre Hedrick]

On Mon, 7 May 2001, David Balazic wrote:

> 
> Andre , you promised ATA/IDE hot-swap on "normal" hardware
> several weeks ( months ? ) ago. What happened ?
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Well lets see.....

I lost my ISP (NorthPoint + PacBell)			4/18/2001
There was a T13 meeting the following week.		4/23/2001
Found a flaw in the tests of writecaching.
Reverified the contents of the CODE base to match SPEC	4/29/2001

Reverified that certain hosts are not good.
(oh two kids that were ill and then the wife)
Reconfigure the "CAVE" where I do all of my work.
Write 90% of 48-bit LBA, use/test the hostswap for large/huge drives.  
Look at the user API and chuckled then cried and roared aloud......
Figure out License for the "ide-service.o" module.
	It will not be GPL but a very strict LAD (BSD-ish) License.
	Reasons will follow, but I will not be liable for stupid usage.

So if you are reallying dying to test code that has not been full shaken
down and requires a huge page for the glue, I will post one.

The service utility is not ready yet so it is no good without one.

Regards,

Andre Hedrick
Linux ATA Development

PS I left a dump here and there.........but that was going to be WTMI