"Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Vanguard <no@mail.invalid> wrote
>> Rod Speed wrote
>>> Vanguard <no@mail.invalid> wrote
>
>>>> Unfortunately it costs to get copies of the ATA specs from
>>>> http://www.t13.org/
>
>>> The drafts are readily available for free and that detail didnt
>>> change.
>
>> They are?
>
> Yep.
>
>> Got a URL for the free copy of the full specs for all ATA revisions?
>
> I never said anything about all ATA revisions.
>
>> What I see at
>> http://www.t13.org/Standards/Default...ocumentStage=2
>> is a list (but no links for them) and the comment "Copies of
>> published standards may be purchased from: ANSI, ...". Where are the
>> free copies then?
>
> http://www.t13.org/Documents/Default...ocumentStage=2
> http://www.t13.org/Documents/Default...ocumentStage=1

I was asking about the actual ratified and approved specifications, not
drafts of proposals for those specs. I don't believe "drafts" are the
actual standard. I had asked about getting the standards spec. I
didn't realizer you were pointing at a list that contained some drafts
that proposed those specs. Some entries are just 2-page descriptions or
placeholders, hardly what would be called a standard specification.
Some are docs containing corrections, so hardly a specification. Some
are just entries in the table listing but with no link to an actual doc.
The specs still cost money.