Subject: Re: atapi cdrom drivers
To: Mike Long <mike.long@analog.com>
From: Open Carefully -- Contents Under Pressure <greywolf@defender.VAS.viewlogic.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 11/20/1995 17:00:25
Could someone clarify what ATAPI is all about, i.e., what does the acronym
represent?
[ All this time I thought that ATAPI was a brand name the way it was being
bandied about.]
#define AUTHOR "mike.long@analog.com (Mike Long)"
/*
*
* >From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@lix.polytechnique.fr>
* >Date: Mon, 20 Nov 1995 13:55:12 +0100 (MET)
*
* >wdc0 at isa? port 0x1f0 irq 14
* >wdc1 at isa? port 0x170 irq ?
* >wd* at wdc? drive ?
* >atapibus* at wdc? #one atapibus per controller
* >acd* at atapibus? drive ? #The atapi cdrom, could be other devices
*
* >Any comment/suggestions ?
*
* I think 'atapibus' is redundant. 'scsibus' is necessary because the
* SCSI protocol is standardized but the I/O interface is not. IDE (also
* EIDE and ATAPI) standardize both the protocol and the I/O interface.
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#undef AUTHOR /* "mike.long@analog.com (Mike Long)" */
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