ATA和ATAPI类型硬盘区别方法

ATA和ATAPI类型硬盘区别方法

2010-05-21 17:48

目前，计算机主板IDE控制器连接的硬盘有ATA（AT Attachment）类型和ATAPI（AT Attachment Packet Interface）类型。那么，软件程序BIOS或者Linux内核是如何才能识别出硬盘是那种类型的呢？ 在参考文档[1]中，定义了识别硬盘类型的方法，如下所示： A device not implementing the PACKET command feature set shall place the signature in the Command Block registers listed below for power-on reset, hardware reset, software reset, and the EXECUTE DEVICE DIAGNOSTIC command. If the device does not implement the PACKET command feature set, the signature shall be: Sector Count 01h LBA Low               01h LBA Mid               00h LBA High              00h Device                  00h A device implementing the PACKET command feature set shall place the signature in the Command Block registers listed below for power-on reset, hardware reset, software reset, the EXECUTE DEVICE DIAGNOSTIC command, and the DEVICE RESET command. If the device implements the PACKET command feature set, the signature shall be: Sector Count 01h LBA Low               01h LBA Mid               14h LBA High              EBh Device                  000x0000b where x equals 0 except when responding to a DEVICE RESET, IDENTIFY DEVICE, or READ SECTOR(S) command. For a DEVICE RESET, IDENTIFY DEVICE, or READ SECTOR(S) command the value of x is not changed from that existing when the command is written to the Command register. 在经过软件复位或者硬件复位等操作后，比较LBA Mid和LBA High寄存器中的值是否分别是14h和EBh，就可知连接的硬盘是ATA（AT Attachment）类型还是ATAPI（AT Attachment Packet Interface）类型。 参考文档： [1]. Information Technology – AT Attachment with Packet Interface – 6(ATA /ATAPI-6)

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