18 Apr
2012
18 Apr
'12
12:22 p.m.
Jos Dreesen wrote:
does anyone have a proper programming manual for the
Iomega ZIP drive
( 100MB atapi version ) ?
I need to know exactly which ATAPI commands have been implemented.
I doubt that such a manual was published; it may not even have existed
inside Iomega. By the time those were introduced, the OEM manuals for
disk drives usually just stated that they were compliant with various
standards (e.g., SFF-8020 and SFF-8070), and did not document the commands.
The only sure way to know if a particular command is implemented on a
drive is to issue the command to the drive and check the result. That
was true even when real OEM manuals were available, as the OEM manuals
often had errors and omissions.
Eric