From owner-freebsd-chat Sat May 31 02:21:01 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id CAA14985 for chat-outgoing; Sat, 31 May 1997 02:21:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id CAA14967 for ; Sat, 31 May 1997 02:20:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id LAA19369 for freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG; Sat, 31 May 1997 11:20:54 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA11119; Sat, 31 May 1997 10:57:07 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970531105706.ZK10571@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Sat, 31 May 1997 10:57:06 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IDE or Ultra SCSI References: <199705301207.WAA15894@ogre.dtir.qld.gov.au> <12568.865006858@time.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <12568.865006858@time.cdrom.com>; from Jordan K. Hubbard on May 30, 1997 08:40:58 -0700 Sender: owner-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > IDE is so limited by comparison that, well, there's just no > comparison. ;-) My most favorite gripe about IDE is the so-called ATA standard. It's the first ``may be'' standard i've seen so far. In Table 9, the `Identify device' information is described. The explanation for word 53, bit 0 is: 1 = the field reported in words 54-58 are valid 0 = the field reported in words 54-58 may be valid Also, you can find the word `obsolete' all over the place there. I'm really surprised our wcd driver works with so many ATAPI drives now. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)