Re: disk head scheduling

Mark Lord (mlord@pobox.com)
Wed, 24 Mar 1999 19:56:22 -0500


Gerard Roudier wrote:
..
> IDE protocol does not allow disconnections and tagged queuing.

Try again. IDE has ATAPI tape/cdrom/floppy devices which
perform disconnections *now* under Linux, and has command queuing
in the latest ATA draft standards.

As you noted, ATAPI *is* a SCSI-like protocol.

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mlord@pobox.com

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