21 May
2014
21 May
'14
9 a.m.
On 05/21/2014 01:51 AM, Christian Corti wrote:
On Tue, 20 May 2014, Chuck Guzis wrote:
You're picking nits; back in the day, the word for the set of bus
transceivers and other logic to interface a PATA device to the ISA bus,
however trivial, was known as a "controller". Some were actually quite
sophisticated, offering local caching and bus-mastering.
Don't get cute. People know what I was referring to.
--Chuck
In any case, you're going to need a PATA
controller. Best to get one
with support built-in.
No, you don't. You only need an interface. Most IDE interfaces were
mainly an address decoder and the like connected to the ISA bus. The
controller is on the drive, hence "IDE".