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From: Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: WIP: ATA to CAM integration
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Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <4A294DC3.5010008@mavhome.dp.ua>, Alexander Motin writes:
>> I think ATAPI disk device is theoretically possible, but I believe it 
>> does not exist in practice, as industry do not need it. 
> 
> Maxtor ZIP ?

May be, never had an ATA version. But it is more FDD, then HDD. Also it 
existed in Parallel Port and SCSI versions, so it could be done in ATAPI 
way just for unification.

-- 
Alexander Motin