Re: swsusp: don't eat ide disks

[Alan Cox]

On Mon, 2002-11-04 at 08:16, [e-mail] wrote:
> Also, I know at least of one nasty device here that won't play
> nice unless it gets the identify command after reset (special
> hacked device that lies about it's device type, a ZIP that
> masquerades as an IDE-CD, to workaround firmware bugs in some
> older laptops, ugh !)

And old old quantum drives a few of which if I remember rightly were not
averse to doing one or two command types before the disk head reached
speed