On Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 05:37:55PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 11:26:39AM -0400, Laine Stump wrote:
> > What's the deal with disconnect on IDE anyway? I recall something being
> > said about it awhile back, but don't remember the details - do most IDE
> > devices support it, or not?
> 
> I think most modern devices supports it but it's still an optionnal feature.
> Also not supported by NetBSD yet.

Hmm, don't the current CD-RW drives have large internal RAM buffers?  If so,
then isn't it more important to be able to keep the _average_ data flow fast
enough - and less important to be able to transfer every byte with a very
low latency?

  -jm