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The Scsi Bus and Ide Interface: Protocols, Applications and Programming

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Because of the rapidly revised specification and tons of legacy issues, it's not easy for a book to cover the latest technologies as well as the former ones. This book isn't quite up to date especially in IDE. If you want to know what is UDMA or Tailgate, they are not in this book.

For a beginner that is about to implement devices or program drivers, this book should be a good entry, but not enough. If you have already know how hard drives work, save your money and download the newest spec.

This book is mainly a reference for the SCSI Interested professional. It will not cover the IDE interface in as much detail as you would like. If you think you will be speaking specifically to a hard drive via code, you will have to memorize interrupt values, AND pay very close attention to the protocol information. This book isn't quite what you think,nor was it what i expected. Although an informative reference for basic SCSI devices, i'm still searching for one that will help me program for hard disks. Hope this was helpful.

All right, so you can search under your bonnet until the cows come home. Yet no such thing exists. Vehicle technology has surpassed the carburetor, but one time you needed them. And you stuck them on your engine. But did you really know how they work?

The SCSI Bus and IDE Interface are the carburetors of the computer world. Sure, you put them in computers. But to you really know how they worked? Well this here book has everything you ever wanted to now about those interfaces. It also contains a SCSI monitor tool together with the complete example source code on disk. SCSI has advanced to specialize in ever larger disk arrays. The simple one that was used in your PC is no longer or very hard to find. But it can not hurt to know what they are and how they work as being computer literate.

This book was advertised as being new, looked to be in good condition, but many of the pages had highlighting, notes and other markings.