On 11-07-27 10:25 AM, Yasha Karant wrote:
> I have found that modern CUPS printer support configuration tools under
> EL have a fairly complete data base of the drivers/parameters needed for
> vendor specific printers.
> To some extent, this seems to include even reverse engineered data for
> printers for which the vendor will not provide any detailed public
> specifications and only provides proprietary "drivers" to the monopoly
> (and sometimes, Apple).
>
> Given various comments and suggestions that have appeared concerning the
> proper Linux formatting/partitioning and use of some current SATA hard
> drives that no longer present the 512 byte standard to the operating
> system, could SL (or RH or something equivalent to the CUPS team or ...)
> provide a data base for drives similar to the CUPS one for printers?
> For example, during the initial installation of either a new drive or a
> new major release of the OS (e.g., going from EL 5 to EL 6), the drive
> partitioning/formatting utility would recognize the drive(s) in use and
> automatically set either acceptable or "optimal" parameters.
>
> If such a data base exists, relevant URLs and/or RPMs would be appreciated.
>
> Yasha Karant

This may be a suggestion that would be more pertinent to the upstream 
vendor, as I understand it SL doesn't actually do any development to 
modify or add to the EL base upon which SL is built. :)

If it's already been done, I haven't heard about it - that's not to say 
it doesn't exist though ;)

-Chris