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SubjectRe: IDE/ATAPI in 2.5
Hi,

On Sun, 14 Jul 2002, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> > Please stop calling ATAPI as SCSI over IDE, it is not. It is Packet
> > Interface over ATA (IDE). Some ATAPI/SCSI devices are functionally
> > equivalent because they support the same command set (i.e. MMC).
>
> ATAPI _is_ SCSI over IDE with a few "bugs"/deviations:
>
> [Blah...]

What you describe is still not SCSI. It's the Packet Interface, and it's
not run over IDE, but over ATA. You need to know the difference between
hardware style and command layers, providing that you're really a person
who has ever written a SCSI driver.

Regards,
Thunder
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