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At 11:33 AM 5/22/2001, Dal Allan wrote:
> At this point you might ask, 'So what?', that responsibility has
> always been the basic charter of standards bodies. The `so what'
> is that each of these three uses of the ATA interface already has
> its own book of rules.
>
> +--------------+----------------------------------------+
> | IDE/ATA Disk | ATA-2 and ATA-3 |
> | ATAPI CD-ROM | SFF-8020 Rev 1.2 and SFF-8020i Rev 2.5 |
> | ATAPI Tape | QIC-157 |
> +--------------+----------------------------------------+
>
> There are products built according to each of the books, and those
> products don't always do exactly the same thing when they see a
> 'yellow'. At present the players are just warming up and making
> 'harrumphing' noises but you can expect some serious discussion to
> start later in February.
YIKES, Dal! Don't even MENTION SFF-8020i Rev 2.5 !!! THAT Rev is
what screwed everybody!
THAT is the version that was totally WRONG!
At least SFF-8020i Rev 2.6 fixed the DASP/PDIAG soft reset thingy!
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