> does anybody have .pdf of ATA-3 or ATA-2 standard ?
> Unfortunately 125 $$$ for a copy is too much for a
> poor student (as I have seen on http://www.ansi.org).
No .pdf, but you can get it in plaintext from either
ftp://darkflame.ml.org/ide.txt or
ftp://darkflame.ml.org/ata-r4c.txt
The latter is more readable, but the former is more current (ATA3 as
opposed to ATA)
-Scott