2 Dec
2008
2 Dec
'08
11:34 p.m.
On Nov 28, 2008, at 4:23 PM, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
Well sorta...the address, data, and control buses of an 8088! ;)
(damn IDE/ATA is such a friggin' nasty kludge)
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
On Thu, 27 Nov
2008, Tony Duell wrote:
You're mixing your terminology. A bus doesn't really come into
play here. OK, but IDE bus interface cards do exist. Meaning
cards that link
ISA
(or whatever) bus to an IDE drive. For ISA, it's little more than an
address decoder and buffers (I happen to be using one in this PC).
Right,
that's what I've called an IDE HBA (host-bus-adapter).