···4445<toc></toc>460000000000000047 <chapter id="libataThanks">48 <title>Thanks</title>49 <para>50 The bulk of the ATA knowledge comes thanks to long conversations with51- Andre Hedrick (www.linux-ide.org).052 </para>53 <para>54 Thanks to Alan Cox for pointing out similarities
···4445<toc></toc>4647+ <chapter id="libataIntroduction">48+ <title>Introduction</title>49+ <para>50+ libATA is a library used inside the Linux kernel to support ATA host51+ controllers and devices. libATA provides an ATA driver API, class52+ transports for ATA and ATAPI devices, and SCSI<->ATA translation53+ for ATA devices according to the T10 SAT specification.54+ </para>55+ <para>56+ This Guide documents the libATA driver API, library functions, library57+ internals, and a couple sample ATA low-level drivers.58+ </para>59+ </chapter>60+61 <chapter id="libataThanks">62 <title>Thanks</title>63 <para>64 The bulk of the ATA knowledge comes thanks to long conversations with65+ Andre Hedrick (www.linux-ide.org), and long hours pondering the ATA66+ and SCSI specifications.67 </para>68 <para>69 Thanks to Alan Cox for pointing out similarities