Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 12:30:55 +1200 From: "Juha Saarinen" <juha@saarinen.org> To: "Matthew Emmerton" <matt@gsicomp.on.ca>, "Cyrille Lefevre" <clefevre@poboxes.com> Cc: <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: ATA_ENABLE_ATAPI_DMA gone? Message-ID: <KPECIILENDDLPCNIMLOFKEABCBAA.juha@saarinen.org> In-Reply-To: <003301c0c21d$2c4b0cd0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca>
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:: ATA devices are hard disks. :: ATAPI devices are everything else (tape drives, floppy drives - including :: ZIP drives, and CD-ROM and DVD drives). :: :: ATA was originally developed as a standard for hard drives, and was later :: extended to support other devices. Hence, ATAPI, where PI stands for :: "Peripheral Interconnect" or something like that. Well, not quite. The AT Attachment Packet Interface is part of the ATA-2 spec. -- Juha To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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