Re: How to control CDrom IDE

[Dimiter Popoff <tgi_earth@yahoo.com>]

>I expect you will need to control the CDROM in one of the so called PIO modes. 
>recommend the following info sources:
>ANSI Standard X3.221-1994 (ATA)
>ANSI Standard X3.279-1996(ATA-2)
>ANSI Standard X3.298-1997(ATA-3)

These are old. Try www.t13.org, ftp.t13.org etc., you need at least
ATA-4 to know about ULTRA-DMA. There is also a mailing list, t13@t13.org.

Dimiter

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