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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: SATA ATAPI UDMA - first in Linux
Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 16:05:23 -0400
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Pat LaVarre wrote:
> Google etc. tells me noone on Earth has yet massively distributed a host
> that speaks SATA ATAPI UDMA.
> 
> SATA ATAPI I find.
> SATA UDMA I find.
> ATAPI UDMA I find.
> 
> SATA ATAPI UDMA I do not find.
> 
> Not yet in Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, etc.
> 
> If you know different, please speak up, else I'll believe the SATA ATAPI
> UDMA Linux work now happening here will be the first such public work.


Windows and Linux have both supported SATA ATAPI -- which implicitly 
includes UDMA from looking at the bridges -- for a while now, in various 
  OS drivers.

If you have an ICH5 or Silicon Image 3112, I bet you could use your 
ATAPI device using the existing Linux IDE driver...

	Jeff