Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964819AbWAMKnc (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Jan 2006 05:43:32 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964823AbWAMKnc (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Jan 2006 05:43:32 -0500 Received: from uproxy.gmail.com ([66.249.92.192]:62562 "EHLO uproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964819AbWAMKnc convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Jan 2006 05:43:32 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=O/AmlyuXRGXvYSeYwOC1FqP8/3XiwNTJgxoLUYvwpiPihecXYiahaZYOXj+dTp3EcbHZF3prJ5evZyPT6NlOViLZmtf/0ly8bXHV2wVhhTivgEkCy3VQAxE406BWm+L/JfjC1rvnymbL6+VkC40X2fzK/thGWLIrYPNiBIziPgw= Message-ID: <1e62d1370601130243r584eb6e2u57a4e7280f493d97@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 15:43:30 +0500 From: Fawad Lateef To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Subject: Re: Is there any hard disk standard? Cc: jeff shia , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <58cb370e0601130211j50b85af0w3fa2a1a5f872d0e@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Content-Disposition: inline References: <7cd5d4b40601130200m73798389p4939e9e43cb0db87@mail.gmail.com> <58cb370e0601130211j50b85af0w3fa2a1a5f872d0e@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1090 Lines: 29 On 1/13/06, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > On 1/13/06, jeff shia wrote: > > > > Many companies produce hard disks,Is there any hard disk standard?Or > > where can I > > get the standard? > > ATA: http://www.t13.org (seems to be down at the moment) > SCSI: http://www.t10.org > SerialATA: http://www.serialata.org > > or use www.google.com Adding some explanation in Bartlomiej reply : The standards are related to bus on which the device (hard disk in your case) are attached ! As HDD can be connected to IDE/ATA, SCSI or SATA or so on .... so they are the standard for connectivity between the device and system ... And the device (like HDD) need to provide that standard interface for connectivity but can do what-ever they like internally through its firmware or driver (CMIIW) -- Fawad Lateef - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/