[t13] Question on Streaming

[Curtis Stevens]

Are there 8 or 16 stream ID’s?  Is a stream a bi-directional entity, or a single direction?  In ATA8-ACS, I am looking at clause 7.9 (Configure Stream).  This can get a bit touchy for error checking.  If you configure stream to add a stream with ID 5h as a write stream, and there is already an ID 5h that is a read stream, do you error or do you consider it a separate stream.  If it is a separate stream, it will make turning a stream off a little more tedious.   In the streaming command set, when you have a command completion timeout, how is the error reported if you have received all the data, but the flush to disk is still in process?  We see varying implementations…     ------------------------------------------------- Curtis E. Stevens 20511 Lake Forest Drive #C-214D Lake Forest, California 92630 Phone: 949-672-7933 Cell: 949-307-5050 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ambition is a poor excuse for not having enough sense to be lazy.