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Originally Posted by TheCyberDruid
"Advanced Technology Attachment with Packet Interface"
IDE is the precursor of ATAPI.
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No. IDE (or ATA) is a bus type or command set. ATAPI is data transfer protocol over IDE bus.
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Originally Posted by XimeR
I believe IDE & ATAPI are the same thing (if not, please correct me, I very well could be wrong)... What does ATAPI mean?
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ATAPI = SCSI over IDE, for C/DVD etc.. drives. (All IDE/ATA CD/DVD ROMs use SCSI command set)
Harddrives still use standard ATA command set. (Update ATA registers, write command byte to command register. This won't work with SCSI)