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On 14 Oct 2018 at 9:45, Thomas Huth wrote:
> Am Fri, 12 Oct 2018 16:57:01 +0200
> schrieb Uwe Seimet <Uwe.Seimet@xxxxxxxxx>:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I noticed that ATA packet writing is supported by the IDE emulation,
> > provided that an IDE device is marked as a CD-ROM. Doing this
> > non-programmatically does not seem to be supported, even though the
> > emulation appears to be functional. Any reason why this is not
> > configurable? Or is it and I missed something?
>
> This is completely dead code right now. The IDE code has been copied
> from QEMU, but ATAPI support has never been enabled / tried in Hatari.
> IIRC I was also not aware of any Atari software which was able to use
> ATAPI - but sounds like HD-Driver is now able to do so?
>
ExtenDOS / CD Writer use ATAPI (via HDDRIVER's SVSI driver) and have done so
for a long time.
Roger