Need help, a bit confused!!!!

[spmiz]

I need to know what it means by ATAPI when referring to a CD-RW? I am looking at the Plexor new CD-RW drive since all the reviews I have seen have been great, but I am lost on that term. And how this connects up to the new motherboards like Asus A7V.Please Help???
Thanks.....

[Sweeper]

ATA and ATAPI are the real names for the mass storage device interface that is frequently called IDE and EIDE.So what does ATA mean? It stands for AT Attachment but most people don't remember what an AT is anymore (anyone remember the IBM PC/AT?). And what about ATAPI? It stands for ATA Packet Interface.

ATA/ATAPI is the most popular device interface today. Of the approximately 140 million hard disk drives made in the last year, 90+ percent are ATA. The remainder are various types of SCSI inteface drives. And the vast majority of CD-ROM drives are ATAPI devices. Most PCMCIA and CFA mass storage devices are also ATA or ATAPI devices

[qball]

Sweeper is good but ya left out;

AT = Advanced Technology (well it was back then)

XT = Extended Technology

IDE = Integrated Drive Electronics

EIDE = Enhanced Integrated Drive Electronics

Somebody stop me!

[NDC]

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