>From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@lix.polytechnique.fr>
>Date: Tue, 21 Nov 1995 09:27:17 +0100 (MET)
>
>Mike Long said:
>> 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.
>
>When i did this, i thought: "there should be an ATA bus, bus as the only device
>i know on ATA is disk, this is redudent whith wd" :)
>
>Well, i've heard (but i'm not shure) that some macintoshes had ide drives,
>so there could be ATAPI devices on such hardware. But in this case, the device
>driver for the adapter can't be shared with i386, because macintoshes are not
>ISA.

I only thought of that possibility after sending my last message. :-)
I've read that Amigas can use IDE drives too, but maybe that requires
an ISA bridge?

So, I take back what I said about 'atapibus' being redundant.
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