22 May
2014
22 May
'14
1:45 a.m.
On Wed, 21 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.
Sure I'm picking nits, sometime I just have to ;-))
But over here, we mostly said "interface", sometimes "adapter", only
seldom "controller". Think of "SCSI" where you have a host bus adapter
and
not a controller, even though most adapaters (e.g. with integrated SCSI
IC) were controllers in the sense of controlling themselves the protocol
between the host system and the drive. Any pre-DMA IDE interface doesn't
control anything in this regard.
Christian