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Technical Notes: Hardware
ATA/ATAPI-5 is a standard that defines the configuration of master and slave devices, and PIO and DMA data transfer modes. ATA/ATAPI-5 offers ATAPI support for ATA devices other than hard disks, for block-mode transfers, and for Ultra DMA modes. In Mac OS X, ATA and ATAPI devices are fully supported. In addition, the I/O Kit (Apple's object-oriented driver development framework) provides developers with the resources to support different or extended functionality in ATAPI mass-storage devices.
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ATA Device Software Guide Additions and Corrections (HTML) (PDF) ()
TN1098: Notes Errors and additions to ATA Device Software Guide and ATA Manager 4.0.
 1997-07-01
ATA Interface Modules (HTML) (PDF)
TN1192: Describes how to write device drivers for ATA host bus controllers, ie. ATA Interface Module.
 1999-12-01
CD-ROM Driver Calls (HTML) (PDF)
Deprecated - DV22: Discusses public interface to Apple CD-ROM driver and supersedes information in AppleCD SC Developer's Guide.
 2000-08-14