Vanguard <no@mail.invalid> wrote
> Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote
>> 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 already told you that that detail didnt change significantly
between the draft and the ratified standard.

And the later drafts include the ratified standard too.

> I don't believe "drafts" are the actual standard.

You have always been, and always will be, completely and
utterly irrelevant. What you may or may not believe in spades.

> I had asked about getting the standards spec.

And I told you how to see those for free, most obviously when a
later draft includes the earlier ratified detail on the security mode.

Not ever a single mention of the drive doing any encryption, which
is all that is needed to prove that you have never had a clue.

> 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.

Pity about the other ones that cover that security mode completely.

> Some are docs containing corrections, so hardly a specification.

Pity about the other ones that cover that security mode completely.

> Some are just entries in the table listing but with no link to an actual doc.

Pity about the other ones that cover that security mode completely.

> The specs still cost money.

Not when a later draft includes that ratified spec they dont.

Rule of Holes, child. When you are in one STOP DIGGING.