Re: IDE/ATAPI

From: Peter Steiner (p.steiner@t-online.de)
Date: Thu Apr 20 2000 - 07:21:19 EST


Mark Hahn <hahn@coffee.psychology.mcmaster.ca> wrote:

>> - ATA implementations that do dis-/reconnect in the same channel
>current IBM disks support this, and there's no controller support
>necessary.

As far as I understand the specs, ATA disconnect sucks, because you have
to poll the drives to find out if one of them wishes to reconnect.

Peter

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