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Yes the Ata ops x23/33 Read/Write Long were obsoleted a long time ago.

They remained defined & standard, they were just obsolete.  They were not 
vendor-specific, they were just obsolete.  Bridges could bridge to them, and still 
work with any Ata hard drive that happened to implement them.

Bridging to something undefined is tougher.

> The Seek command is headed to the same bit bucket in the sky.

Different bit bucket.  Undefined rather than merely obsolete.

Pat LaVarre

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I don't see any commands called ReadLong or WriteLong in ATA/6 at 
all. They are obsolete and have been for a long time.

The Seek command is headed to the same bit bucket in the sky.



At 12:01 PM -0700 2/21/02, Pat LaVarre wrote:
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>Looks like the Ata folk neglected to take anything except read/write 
>past the 28-bit Lba barrier.
>
>This means bridges to Ata cannot bridge such concepts as x2B Seek, 
>x3E ReadLong, x3F WriteLong, not above 128GiB @ 0.5KiB/block, not in 
>any vendor-independent way.
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