mostafazizo wrote:
1- the page "ATAPI" should be merged into the page "ATA PIO mode"
Seems like a good idea to me (unless anyone has objections).
mostafazizo wrote:
2- then, "ATA PIO mode" should be renamed to something like "ATA/ATAPI"
AFAIK, ATAPI falls under ATA (it's only another way of sending commands), so I think just ATA should do (or you could use ATA_ATAPI, since I don't think underscores are allowed in page names on wiki's since they form part of the URL directory path).
mostafazizo wrote:
3- then inside the page we can talk about both "PIO mode" and "DMA Mode".
4- then reforming and inserting the page "ATA/ATAPI using DMA" into the article, under "DMA Mode" section.
Seems good to me.
mostafazizo wrote:
5- We should not forget talking about how to eject and lock ATAPI removable mediums.
I agree, although some people may argue that you can already find that in the ATA/ATAPI specifications. But although the ATAPI specification seems to say what command you must send, it only seems to specify full instructions for reading/writing data, but not for special commands such as ejecting. I guess we can only assume the process is more or less the same. If anyone knows how to deal with these, I would be happy to hear it.