30 May
2007
30 May
'07
7:31 p.m.
On 30 May 2007 at 17:24, Chris M wrote:
I think I've even asked this question before, but
got
no response. Or at least no suitable ones. Hosers.
Though I was recently told that the first IDE card
appeared in a Compaq Deskpro. Can anyone confirm or deny?
Card or drive? The whole ATA business was thought up, IIRC, by
Western Digital somewhere around 1986. I haven't the faintest idea
who came out with the first host adapter card. I probably wouldn't
have noticed, given the brain-dead nature (mostly some address
decodig and a couple of buffers) of the beast.
The command set belongs squarely in the ESDI camp, however.
Cheers,
Chuck