[CrackMonkey] [Pigdog] Thom's missed the boat... again. CPRM

[Nick Moffitt]

	Haw haw!  that looney Thom Stark!

----- Forwarded message from William Plein <bplein at speakeasy.net> -----

Thom-

I guess you get what comes to you by jumping on the boat a few months
late and a brain cell or two billion short.

http://www.lmicp.com/4centity/data/tech/cprmfactsheet.pdf

Q. The CPRM specification emphasizes "portable" ATA devices. Can this
technology be used for fixed hard drives?
A. CPRM is not applicable to or licensed for use on generic fixed hard
drives. CPRM is designed to allow portable media to interoperate among
different media players and recorders.

If you had joined the CPRM email list server, months ago like others
on Pigdog had, you'd realize a few things:

1) It wasn't designed for ATA hard drives, although it might be used
in appliances with drives like a Tivo system.
2) It won't be LICENSED for use on generic hard drives in PC's. 
3) ISP's  (your audience that buys so many harddrives, as you noted),
use SCSI and FC drives if they have any hope of staying in business.
Anyone deploying servers with internal ATA drives for their business
is an amateur, who thinks that it is better to save money on drives
than to spend money on manageable, protected and shareable arrays.

CPRM is still an insidous, crappy standard. But not for the reasons
you've stated. You are coming to this too late, with too little
information. READ, READ and READ some more. Then, when you are about
to rant, shut the fuck up and READ some more.

You know, it is going to be harder and harder for you to be a
mainstream writer for the industry when you've dropped out of the
consulting biz. Where are you going to get real experience with
today's technology? If I were you, I'd limit myself to writing about
horses, history, and your adventures in becoming a California
hillbilly. 

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