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>Of course for PATA an ATAPI device must perform the SRST protocol - >just think of the mess that would happen if the other device on the >PATA interface was an ATA device that did the SRST while the ATAPI >device did not do the SRST. Missed my point, which was that on PATA, an ATAPI device would do the SRST protocol, but would not reset (and in the old days preserve DSC). I think this goes back to ATA/ATAPI 4.
