M8207 anyone?

From: Eric Smith <eric_at_brouhaha.com>
Date: Fri Aug 11 14:17:54 2000

> Suffice to say IDE is not a protocal like SCSI it is a DEVICE
> interface and is somewhat uncooked at that.

That's a fairly disingenuous claim. Both SCSI and IDE have a "device
interface" (physical layer) and a "protocol" (interpretation of bytes
in various registers and phases).

IDE in fact has two different protocols, ATA and ATAPI; ATAPI protocol
is by design very similar to SCSI protocol.

As of SCSI 3, there are *many* different SCSI physical layers and
several different protocols.
Received on Fri Aug 11 2000 - 14:17:54 BST

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