> The hardware is called (E)IDE, the protocol is called ATA. > Or that's what I was told -- I think there's some historic > revisionism involved, too. ATA is the interface and standards for the ANSI standards based disk attachment. IDE "Integrated Drive Electronics" is a marketing name used to cover all sorts of ST412 compatible-ish early interfaces that moved the brains onto the disk. IDE doesn't really mean much but "brains on disk", ATA is a real standard. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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