Re: IDE/ATAPI in 2.5

Joerg Schilling (schilling@fokus.gmd.de)
Sun, 14 Jul 2002 16:28:49 +0200 (CEST)


>From aia21@cantab.net Sun Jul 14 15:38:33 2002

>At 14:24 14/07/02, Joerg Schilling wrote:
>>[...] In addition, if the drive would support DAE via some non-standard
>>interface [...]. The DAE quality would be lousy [...].

>This is a very presumptuous statement! You cannot assume that an
>alternative interface would be of lousy quality. Maybe it is a million
>times better? The current one (at least as some drives implement it on the
>drive side) can be of very, very poor quality indeed.

Name a single drive that is DAE capable, does not support ATAPI and
doesn't do DAE in lousy quality.

>Note: I am not saying that there is an alternative interface or anything
>like that... just that your statement is fallacious.

Your statements just proove that you didn't try to get the background information
that is needed to find a useful and seminal future development.

Jörg

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