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From: "Daniela Engert" <dani@ngrt.de>
To: "Bill Davidsen" <davidsen@tmr.com>
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Subject: Re: [patch] My AMD IDE driver, v2.7
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On Wed, 20 Mar 2002 13:11:03 -0500 (EST), Bill Davidsen wrote:

>On Wed, 20 Mar 2002, Daniela Engert wrote:
>
>> >This behavior is permitted by the specification, as far as I know -
>> 
>> Actually not. Have a look at page 36 of the current ATA6 specification.
>
>That's probably not the place to look, since drives will conform to the
>specs in place when they were designed. If older specs did not require
>automatic spinup, then ATA6 doesn't apply.

Well, then have a look at page 31 of the ATA3 spec. It tells you
basically the same - just a little more terse ;-)

Ciao,
  Dani


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