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The Enhanced IDE/Fast-ATA FAQ
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This FAQ is the work of John Wehman (
jwehman@got.net
) and Peter den Haan (
pieterh@sci.kun.nl
). The homepage
of the FAQ is
The HTML version should also be online on
and the text version is available by FTP from
You can also get it by e-mail from
pieterh@sci.kun.nl
by sending a message with "EIDE FAQ text"
in the Subject: header. The body of the message will be ignored. You
can replace "text" by "PostScript" or "html" if you want
something more fancy than plain text. Anything else will probably break the
mail server and cause it to send you an uuencoded coredump :-)
- DISCLAIMER.
The information in this FAQ comes without any
warranty. The authors or distributor will not accept responsibility for any
damage incurred directly or indirectly through use of the information
contained in this FAQ.
- COPYRIGHT.
This document is copyright © John Wehman and Peter den
Haan. You are free to distribute it by electronic means and make as many
copies as you want on electronic or magnetic media, convert it to a
different format, and embed control sequences, as long as the text of this
document remains unmodified, with copyright notices intact. Splitting up
this document is allowed on the condition that the resultant parts are
presented as a recognizable whole that makes up the full, unmodified text.
You are allowed to make paper copies of this document for personal use;
however, distribution of printed copies for profit is prohibited without the
authors' prior permission.
- THANKS.
To everyone on
comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
for encouragement and
feedback, especially those who took the time to communicate their comments
in some detail. To Hale Landis without whom the FAQ would have been
considerably less accurate on a number of key points; to Stephanie Brady
from OnTrack for extensive Disk Manager related information; to Aron
Eisenpress for critically reading the FAQ time and again; and many, many
others.
- TODO.
- Drop the definition of megabyte as 1048576 bytes, which is
nonstandard in this context, and use 1000000 byte MBs instead.
- Reorganize the FAQ, with a complete overhaul of the text.
- Write howto type documents walking through specific tasks.
- Tweak the HTML output more. Perhaps find another translator.
- NOTE.
The text, PostScript and HTML versions of the FAQ are all
produced from a common linuxdoc-SGML source. This solution is not perfect
and all versions do contain some infelicities. Apologies. Suggestions for
improvement are most welcome, as are complimentary copies of more
professional multi-format authoring tools.
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