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    Hi,<br>
    <br>
    we are a small team of volunteers maintaining smartmontools in
    unpaid spare time.<br>
    <br>
    If you want to speed up the inclusion of a requested enhancement,
    please consider to donate person hours. For example, ask your
    software development department to provide a patch for drivedb.h.
    See [1] for some examples.<br>
    <br>
    Regards,<br>
    Christian<br>
    <br>
    [1]
    <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.smartmontools.org/query?type=patch&component=drivedb">https://www.smartmontools.org/query?type=patch&component=drivedb</a><br>
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    Koby Ou wrote:
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        <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Hi Franke,</span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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            style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"
            lang="EN-US">Sorry, I went to ask a question .
            <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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            style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"
            lang="EN-US">Is it necessary for us to become a member of
            this smatmontools organization and provide some sponsorship?</span><span
            style="font-size:12.0pt" lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt" lang="EN-US">BRs</span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"
            lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
              style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial
              Narrow",sans-serif" lang="EN-US">Koby Ou<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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            style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Brush Script
            MT",serif" lang="EN-US">Solid State Storage Technology
            Corp<span style="color:#00B050"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
            style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"
            lang="EN-US">Tel: 020-22320168 Ext 62913<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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            lang="EN-US"><o:p>...</o:p></span></p>
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