From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pat LaVarre Subject: etymology of SATA PATA SATAPI PATAPI Date: 21 May 2004 11:09:12 -0600 Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <1085159352.3139.27.camel@patibmrh9> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from email-out2.iomega.com ([147.178.1.83]:16514 "EHLO email.iomega.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265932AbUEURJX (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 May 2004 13:09:23 -0400 Received: from royntex01.iomegacorp.com (franklin [10.1.1.83]) by email.iomega.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CD181EE3 for ; Fri, 21 May 2004 11:09:20 -0600 (MDT) List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org People I met today guessed I may have coined the term PATA. As a point of personal privilege, I cry innocent: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-ide&s=pata immediately finds a reference as old as: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-ide&m=107048452605455 Date: 2003-12-03 20:44:46 ====== ... Intel ICH5 ---------- Summary: ... Looks like a PATA controller, but with a few added, non-standard SATA port controls. ... ====== http://www.google.com/search?q=satapi http://groups.google.com/groups?q=satapi also have relevant hits, some dating as far back as August, 2003. No relevant hits yet appear at: http://www.google.com/search?q=satapi http://groups.google.com/groups?q=patapi http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-ide&s=patapi http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-ide&s=satapi I notice PATAPI has as many letters as PCMCIA = People Can't Memorise Computer Industry Acronyms. Pat LaVarre