This message is from the T13 list server.
Hale Landis wrote:
I should have added: Anyone working with serial ATA are most likely not using ATA/ATAPI-7 because the only valid description of serial ATA comes from the SATA secret society under NDA. ATA/ATAPI-7 should not be considered a valid description of serial ATA.
The "secret society" develops SATA, but the specs are public on serialata.org, just like t13.org.
Jeff
