On Thu, 29 Jun 1995 10:44:55 +0100, paul@parsys.co.uk (Paul Wilkinson) said:

>Other mail on this subject confirms Linux does support ATAPI CD-ROM's, I
>can only guess what an ATAPI CD-ROM drive is, it sounds like an IDE CD-ROM
>can be an ATAPI drive, in which case that would explain how Linux is able
>to talk to an IDE CD-ROM.

 No, NetBSD does not support generic ATAPI devices.  I did start
writing one but got stuck on the data side of things (the audio side
of things was fine).

 ATAPI is the ATA Packet Interface (ATA is AT -- as in the IBM machine
-- Attachment, most commonally referred to as IDE).  The Packet
Interface is essentially a subset of the SCSI command set (minus those
commands that don't make sense for ATA devices -- multi-host,
multi-target etc.).

Cheers,

	Ian
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