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 JahntassaWhat, I can have feathersPremium
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kudos:4 | Probably just the way they decided to label it in the firmware. Are you having a problem with it? |
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| No, as I said in the original post. I was just curious if anyone knew why it was named that way. Maybe it was just a mistake? As long as it's working I'm OK but I can't help but wonder why they picked to name the drive "ATAPI" if it's a LITE-ON drive. Oh well, any other guesses? |
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ChiTangPremium,MVM
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I would be more curious about the "other devices" than why it is labelled as ATAPI.
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So no one knows exactly why they picked this name for the drive? I'm starting to wonder if it was an accident. As long as the drive continues to work I'm OK but it does look a little weird.  |
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| said by GNY :So no one knows exactly why they picked this name for the drive? I'm starting to wonder if it was an accident. As long as the drive continues to work I'm OK but it does look a little weird. ATAPI is just a generic designation. I rather suspect that the firmware is being used/licensed for other name branded drives, so they do not use a specific "brand name". Nothing to be concerned about, that is not any indictment of the quality of the drive.
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ATAPI is not the brand name. The specific manufacturer of the drive is not able to be determined, so it resorts to the generic designation.
ATAPI stands for Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface. It's an expansion of the ATA designation which, took effect, I beleive, with ATA-4 (UDMA33).
More at »en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AT_Attachment |
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| said by dbmaven:ATAPI is not the brand name. The specific manufacturer of the drive is not able to be determined, so it resorts to the generic designation. ATAPI stands for Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface. It's an expansion of the ATA designation which, took effect, I beleive, with ATA-4 (UDMA33). More at » en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AT_Attachment Yep, just so, as I said, a "generic" designation, usually used when the firmware is used in more than one "brand name" drive, or when used in a oem, no-name drive. Lite-On drive mechanisms are used in a great many drives, many not carrying the "Lite-On" name.
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ATAPI DVD C DH52C2P Properties | 
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said by dbmaven:ATAPI is not the brand name. The specific manufacturer of the drive is not able to be determined, so it resorts to the generic designation. ATAPI stands for Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface. It's an expansion of the ATA designation which, took effect, I believe, with ATA-4 (UDMA33). More at » en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AT_Attachment Yes, I already knew all of this. I was just curious as to why it the strings in the firmware for the section where the brand name of the drive should be is replaced with "ATAPI". As you can see in the screenshots I provided with this particular reply the information for both drives are different but they are both LITE-ON drives. That's all, it just confused me a little. Now I'm starting to get the general idea of why it is the way it is. It's really no problem and the drive does work but I like to find out why things are the way they are sometimes. |
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