On Thu, 27 Nov 2008, Tony Duell wrote:
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).
You're mixing your terminology. A bus doesn't really come into play here.
Peace... Sridhar