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On Mon, 10 Dec 2001 09:41:06 -0700, Pat LaVarre wrote: >But one hard-to-bound consequence of this cost-driven choice was >that the device as a whole exploited the freedom in the Ansi text >to respond arbitrarily to writes of x1F7 while selected but BSY. >This device reacted to ANY such write as if it were a write of >x08 DeviceReset, and ended with BSY:DRQ:ERR = 0:0:0, x1F5:1F4 = >the xEB:14 Atapi signature, and so on. I like this. Really. Maybe we could get ATA/ATAPI-7 to define this as the "standard" method of handling a confused host. The we could obsolte the DEVICE RESET command and the result would be that both ATA and ATAPI device would finally have a "device reset" function. I really do like this. *** Hale Landis *** [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** *** Niwot, CO USA *** www.ata-atapi.com *** Subscribe/Unsubscribe instructions can be found at www.t13.org.
