Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 29 Nov 1997 13:09:30 -0500 | From | mlord <> | Subject | Re: Triton DMA |
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Gerard Roudier wrote: > > My opinion about IDE BUS is that it is not a suitable IO bus for mass > storage devices, but looks like some extension of some system bus, since > it is neither terminated, nor uses differential signals.
The IDE bus *is* terminated.
And, yes, it *was* originally a simple extension of the IBM-AT (ISA) bus, but has evolved slightly since then.
> If I enjoyed driving trabants with race car engine, I would probably > use IDE Ultra 33 devices. -- mlord@pobox.com The Linux IDE guy
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