Re: Message for Andre Hedrick

From: Jens Axboe (axboe@suse.de)
Date: Mon May 29 2000 - 18:45:41 EST


On Tue, May 30 2000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > But what do you win by requiring an NDA for the actual firmware?
> > Nothing, people can still just upload crap to the drive.
>
> It is the upload procedure they try to NDA

I figured they'd be using the WRITE_BUFFER, but I just noticed that
it is not part of MMC or SCSI-II. Only Mt Fuji has it. Requiring
the NDA is false security anyway, surely a potential 'bad guy'
would have no problem getting it. But lets end this thread, it's
not exactly helping us get Plextor support...

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*  Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
*  Linux CD/DVD-ROM, SuSE Labs
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