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ATA-ATAPI.COM -- ATA ATAPI SATA IDE EIDE SCSI 1394 CE-ATA
ATA-ATAPI.COM
Information for Developers of Products Using
ATA (PATA, IDE/EIDE), Serial ATA (SATA), ATAPI,
CF, CE-ATA and Other ATA Related Interfaces
[Home]
[Products]
[HowItWorks]
Welcome to ATA-ATAPI.COM
NOTICE TO ATACT, ATADEMO, ATAMDT and BIOSWRT CUSTOMERS:
See the Products page
for important information about these products.
September 2008 -- NEW TEST PROGRAM
BIOSWRT - BIOS Write Read Test
This site is a great resource for anyone seeking
up-to-date and correct information about the ATA and ATAPI
interfaces and some related items. Even if you are not a
developer you may find lots of useful information here to help
you understand the ATA and ATAPI interfaces and some other
related items. For example, see the
How It Works (HIW)
documents and the low level
ATA driver C source code
that Hale Landis has placed into the public domain.
This site also contains opinions and comments by Hale Landis
concerning the current state the ATA/ATAPI interface
and the current status of the various committees that publish
ATA/ATAPI standards, specifications and other documents.
See the
PATA
page if you need a quick tour of how ATA/ATAPI works.
What are ATA and ATAPI?
ATA is the real name for the mass storage device
interface that is frequently called IDE or EIDE. IDE
and EIDE are mostly used by marketing people who do not know
what they are selling or by writers for magazines who do not
know what they are writing about.
ATA is short for AT Attachment. The AT part
is from the IBM PC/AT (1984). ATAPI is short for
ATA Packet Interface. ATAPI allows SCSI devices to be
attached to the ATA interface. The original ATAPI
specification was called SFF-8020. The SFF-8020 specification
is very old and very obsolete - do not use it - instead use
the ATA/ATAPI-5 or -6 (avoid ATA/ATAPI-7) and the SCSI MMC-4
or -5 standards for the current description of ATAPI. The
ATA-8 standard should be done later in 2008. See the
History
page for the full story.
Some definitions:
ATA or PATA - Parallel ATA - the traditional parallel ATA interface -
used by disk drives.
ATAPI or PATAPI - ATAPI using PATA -
used by CD, DVD and tape devices.
SATA - Serial ATA - serial version of parallel ATA -
mostly used by disk drives.
SATAPI - Serial ATAPI - ATAPI using SATA -
used by CD, DVD and tape devices.
Parallel ATA (PATA/PATAPI)
PATA and PATAPI is the traditional ATA interface that has
been standardized for 10+ years by the ANSI/INCITS ATA-1
through ATA/ATAPI-7 standards. This interface is widely used
by PATA disk drives and PATAPI CD/DVD and tape drives.
PCMCIA PC Card ATA devices and Compact Flash (CF) devices use a
PATA based interface.
Read more about PATA on the
PATA
page.
Serial ATA (SATA/SATAPI)
SATA is a serial interface that tries to emulate PATA.
SATA is slowing replacing PATA in all applications - both disk
drives and ATAPI devices such as CD, DVD and tape.
One of the early problems with SATA was the conflicting
standards and incompatibilities between SATA and traditional
PATA. And early SATA host controllers and devices had some
serious problems with reliability and data integrity.
Read more about SATA on the
SATA
page.
Current Status of ATA/ATAPI
The ATA/ATAPI-6 standard is the last of the PATA interface
standards that you should use. There is an ATA/ATAPI-7
standard that attempts to describe both PATA and SATA.
ATA/ATAPI-7 is the result of the merger of an early
(incomplete?) SATA specification into the traditional ATA
(PATA) standards. ATA/ATAPI-7 can be a confusing mess. One
of the problems with SATA is that there are multiple SATA
standards and specifications - ATA/ATAPI-7 and the Serial ATA
specifications. Read more about this on the
SATA
page.
Since about 1990 ATA/ATAPI has been the most popular
storage device interface. Approximately 90 percent of disk
drives manufactured every year use the ATA interface (PATA and
SATA). The remainder are various types of SCSI inteface
drives. In 2008, it looks like 80+% of disk drives will use a
SATA interface. Most CD and DVD devices are ATAPI using the
PATA interface. By 2009 most ATAPI devices will probably also
use a SATA interface. Most PCMCIA and CF mass storage
devices are also ATA or ATAPI devices - these use the PCMCIA PC
Card ATA interface that is based on PATA.
ANSI INCITS T13
T13 is the standards committee that develops and maintains
the ATA and ATA/ATAPI standards. Visit the T13 web site for
the latest information on meeting schedules, proposals for the
next version of ATA/ATAPI and copies of the draft standards to
review. ... WAIT ... HOWEVER ... There is only one problem
with this description of T13... T13 is no longer in control
of the ATA interface standard (especially the SATA part). On
the surface T13 appears to operate in the public domain and
appears to be developing 'open' standards (the purpose of ANSI
standards committees). But in reality T13 is used as the public
proxy for the private and secret Serial ATA (or Serial I/O or
SATA-IO) committee. T13 is prohibited from discussing certain
parts of the ATA (especially the SATA part) interface without
prior approval from the SATA 'secret society'. If the members
of the SATA secret society do not want something discussed at
T13 (in the public eye and ear) they can prohibit it. This is
possible because the 'major' members of T13 are also members
of the SATA 'secret society' and these people (and their
employers) exercise control over the T13 agenda and
discussions. The SATA secret society does not publish minutes
of it meetings so it is not possible to see who attended the
meetings, or what was discussed at the meetings, or who voted
for and against proposals. But the actions of the SATA secret
society directly control how T13 operates. This is a big
mess.
There are many versions of ATA/ATAPI...
Here are links to the major organizations that publish ATA
information:
ANSI - American National Standards Institute
INCITS - InterNational Commitee for Information Technology Standards
T13 - Technical Committee 13 - the ATA/ATAPI committee
T10 - Technical Committee 10 - the SCSI committee
SATA-I/O - Serial ATA 'secret society'
PCMCIA - Personal Computer Memory Card International Association
CFA - Compact Flash Association
MMCA - Multi Media Card Association
SD Card Association
CE-ATA
If you are working with PATA or PATAPI then you need the
ATA/ATAPI-6 document found at
www.t13.org.
If you are working with CD or DVD devices (PATAPI or
SATAPI) then you also need the SCSI Multi Media Commands (MMC)
document. Do not confuse the SCSI MultiMedia Commands (MMC)
document with the Multi Media Card (MMC) specification (see
below). The SCSI MMC document can be found at
www.t10.org.
If you are working with SATA then you must determine which
of the SATA documents you will use - the ATA/ATAPI-7 version
or the ATA-8 version or the SATA secret society version. See
www.t13.org
or
www.sata-io.org.
If you are working with PCMCIA PC Card ATA or Compact Flash
(CF) then you need the PCMCIA documents found at
www.pcmcia.org.
For CF you also need the CF specification found at
www.compactflash.org.
Both PCMCIA PC Card ATA and CF devices are really PATA based devices so you also
need the ATA/ATAPI-6 document from
www.t13.org.
CE-ATA is a variation of the MMC/SD (Multi Media Card /
Secure Digital) interface. This interface is defined by the
very private and very secretive Multi Media Card Association
and the SD Card Association. Virtually no information about
MMC/SD can be obtained unless you are a member of these
associations. See
www.mmca.org.
and
www.sdcard.org.
The odd thing is that the CE-ATA specification is available to
the public but it may not be of much value without the
MMC and SD specifications. The CE-ATA specification can
be found at
www.ce-ata.org.
Note that the CE-ATA committee was created by some of the same
companies that formed the SATA secret society. Little is know
about how the CE-ATA specification was developed. At about
the same time that the CE-ATA specification was created in
2005 the MMC created an 'ATA on MMC' specification.
More Info... ???
The
Berg Software Design
web site is a great resouce for finding information, products
and services for all I/O interfaces.
If you need serious ATA design or development help for your
ATA/ATAPI project, contact
Deadline Specialists.
Other information at this site:
More ATA and ATAPI Information
ATA/ATAPI Q and A
SCSI, 1394, etc
Device Firmware and/or OS Drivers for CD/DVD Devices
Sorry, ATA-ATAPI.COM does not provide this service.
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