From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Apr 10 17:31:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from vimfuego.saarinen.org (saarinen.org [203.79.82.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7C8B37B422 for ; Tue, 10 Apr 2001 17:31:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from juha@saarinen.org) Received: from dendennis.saarinen.org ([192.168.1.2] helo=dendennis) by vimfuego.saarinen.org with smtp (Exim 3.22 #1 (Red Hack)) id 14n8XJ-0002fu-00; Wed, 11 Apr 2001 12:31:05 +1200 From: "Juha Saarinen" To: "Matthew Emmerton" , "Cyrille Lefevre" Cc: Subject: RE: ATA_ENABLE_ATAPI_DMA gone? Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 12:30:55 +1200 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 In-Reply-To: <003301c0c21d$2c4b0cd0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG :: ATA devices are hard disks. :: ATAPI devices are everything else (tape drives, floppy drives - including :: ZIP drives, and CD-ROM and DVD drives). :: :: ATA was originally developed as a standard for hard drives, and was later :: extended to support other devices. Hence, ATAPI, where PI stands for :: "Peripheral Interconnect" or something like that. Well, not quite. The AT Attachment Packet Interface is part of the ATA-2 spec. -- Juha To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message