Return-Path: Received: by vger.rutgers.edu via listexpand id ; Mon, 3 Apr 2000 19:31:41 -0400 Received: by vger.rutgers.edu id ; Mon, 3 Apr 2000 19:31:23 -0400 Received: from adsl-63-195-162-81.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net ([63.195.162.81]:1525 "EHLO master.linux-ide.org") by vger.rutgers.edu with ESMTP id ; Mon, 3 Apr 2000 19:31:06 -0400 Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 15:36:48 -0700 (PDT) From: Andre Hedrick To: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl Cc: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu Subject: Re: Future Linux fun, PARTIES and BEER In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu Content-Length: 1601 Lines: 49 On Tue, 4 Apr 2000 Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl wrote: > > Andries, > > Do you know about this? > > > PARTIES, BEER > > Yes, I know all about it. I just celebrated my birthday. You forgot to invite me........ ;-) > [Have here d1367r1.pdf. In principle this is something > that does not concern us right now, but it may produce > a lot of trouble later. Details will depend on the BIOS.] That is only the "PARTIES", your forgot the "BEER". "BEER" comes first at the end of disk. Only after the "BEER" is located, can one access the "PARTIES". Since the "PARTIES" first entry point is after the last sector of "BEER". Don't forget to drop by EDD's place. You know, Enhanced Disk Drive Services (EDD) [was EDD 3.0]. We have to look address EDD's requirements to be able to find the location of "BEER" and handle the future "PARTIES". Of course, working to support "EDD"'s "BEER" "PARTIES" in principle should prevent a drive crash........ The documents about which we spoke are at: ftp://fission.dt.wdc.com/x3t13/technical/D98128R0.doc (Boot Engineering Extension Record - BEER) ftp://fission.dt.wdc.com/x3t13/project/d1386r3.zip (or .pdf) (BIOS Enhanced Disk Drive Services (EDD) [was EDD 3.0]) ftp://fission.dt.wdc.com/x3t13/project/d1367r1.zip (or .pdf) (Protected Area Run Time Interface Extension Services - PARTIES) The fun you can have with words and phrases........ Andre Hedrick The Linux ATA/IDE guy - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/