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Hale, SATAPI's do exist, that is to say dongles of P-ATAPI to S-ATAPI. They appear to be useful giving the single end mode of operations. Cheers, Andre Hedrick LAD Storage Consulting Group On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Hale Landis wrote: > This message is from the T13 list server. > > > On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 16:03:35 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > >This message is from the T13 list server. > >Here is a list of possible subjects for ATA/ATAPI-8 to consider. > > > >* Serial ATA > > - serial ATAPI > > Really? There is or will be such a thing? That should be fun. > > > - LED > > What about the LED? Oh yea... You are probably talking about the fact > that > on today SATA controllers the LED is useless. Why do the SATA > controllers > even both to implement it especially when it is rarely ever on long > enough > to be seen? (Just another example of how SATA is different from > PATA). > > >* and some large questions to consider: > > - should support for PIO be dropped ? > > Huh? Can you go into more detail about this idea? > > > - should ATA/ATAPI-8 be the final standard to include parallel ATA ? > > ATA/ATAPI-7 should be the final standard incorporating SATA. SATA > should > be placed into its own standard separate from ATA/ATAPI-8 PATA. > > > - redo command volume to be interface-agnostic ? > > - redo command volume to be FIS-based ? > > Of course - separate PATA and SATA into their own documents and > this is a done deal. > > Hale > > > > *** Hale Landis *** www.ata-atapi.com *** > > >
