17 Apr
2000
17 Apr
'00
12:26 p.m.
Do you mean you checked the standard and subsequently fiddled with the
software so it set the mode to 8-bit? That's part of what I wanted to
establish.
Dick
----- Original Message -----
From: <allisonp(a)world.std.com>
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Monday, April 17, 2000 10:33 AM
Subject: Re: 8-bit IDE
> an answer to the question I've put forth.
The 8-bit interface feature
is
> written in the purported ANSI standard for ATA
interfacing, yet nobody
seems
to have
experience with it. I was hopeful that someone would know about
this.
Very simply. I tried that and it's bogus! It does not work. Therefor
expereince with it is limited to trying to make it work.
It may be proposed and would be nice but it's a no-op as far as I can test
it.
features as shown in table 14.
+=====+=============================================================+
| 01h | Enable 8-bit data transfers (see 6.2.5) |
Allison