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Does anyone have any good document or direct informations about ATAPI. Like how to send commands, etc... I have searched around the web, but can't find anything good...

Best Regards
// Christopher Vigren

I think you could try:

www.atapi.com

But, I personally don't know anything about it...yet. I'm not there in my OS dev...

Nevermind, that link doesn't work. I thought I saw a good source on ATAPI, though. I'll continue looking and reply if I find it...

hi
these is the site of a ATA/ATAPI developing company

http://ata-atapi.com/

hale's ata driver demo is pretty intresting.

another interesting site is

http://www.stanford.edu/~csapuntz/ide.html
it has got links to many ATA/ATAPI protocol specifications.

Thanx!

hi
the following site contains links that would interest you as it contains links to more ATA/ATAPI sites

http://pin-outs.com/directory/Hardware/Buses/

the pin-outs directory at
http://pin-outs.com/directory has links that would likely interest the members of this forum.

;D

Can somebody give me a brief explanation of what ATAPI is? Thanks!

Tommy wrote: Can somebody give me a brief explanation of what ATAPI is? Thanks!

The Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface is the standard defined for interfacing devices other than hard disk drives (CD-ROM drives, tape drives, ZIP drives, etc.) through an IDE connector. It is also referred to as the ATA standard; the 'AT' part comes from the original name of the IBM AT (which also stood for 'Advanced Technology', which it supposely was in it's heyday).

The official standards documents can be found at The T13 Committee homepage. Tutorials on the subject can, as usual, be found at the OS Resources Center.