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From: "Henning P. Schmiedehausen" <hps@intermeta.de>
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Subject: Re: PROBLEM: ide-related kernel panic in 2.4.19 and 2.4.20-pre11
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Andre Hedrick <andre@linux-ide.org> writes:

>They are not broken if you have a device which is "Copy-protected" aware.
>It will attempt to thwart your operation request and that can include
>crashing a system.

Which in my country would result in a direct lawsuit ($303b of the
german law code: "Anschlaege auf die Datenverarbeitung durch
Veraenderung oder Vernichtung von Computerdaten, Datentraegern oder
Anlagen") against the vendor of the drive, the computer and the CD.

Thank goodness, I'm living in a country where "law enforcement at gun
point" is not usual.

	Regards
		Henning

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