ATA Devices
ATA (AT Attachment), also referred to as integrated drive electronics (IDE), is a standard interface used with
storage devices such as hard disk drives. For more information on ATA, refer to the following Apple website
at
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Hardware/DeviceManagers/ata/ata.html
ATA Manager 4.0 supports driver software for internal IDE drives and includes DMA support. For the latest
information about ATA Manager 4.0, see Technical Note TN1098, ATA Device Software Guide Additions and
Corrections, available on the world wide web at
http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn/tn1098.html
The web page for Technical Note TN1098 includes a link to a downloadable copy of ATA Device Software
Guide.
Information about the ATA standards is available at the Technical Committee T13 AT Attachment website,
at
http://www.t13.org/
USB Interface
For more information about USB on Macintosh computers, refer to Apple Computer’s Mac OS USB DDK API
Reference. Information is also available on the World Wide Web, at
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Hardware/DeviceManagers/usb/usb.html
USB game controllers are supported by the InputSprocket component of the Apple Games Sprockets software
architecture. InputSprocket software and information about the InputSprocket API can be found at
http://developer.apple.com/games/
For full specifications of the Universal Serial Bus, you should refer to the USB Implementation Forum on the
World Wide Web, at
http://www.usb.org/developers/docs
FireWire Interface
For additional information about the FireWire IEEE 1394a and 1394b interfaces and the Apple API for FireWire
software, refer to the resources available on the Apple FireWire website at
http://developer.apple.com/hardwaredrivers/firewire/
The IEEE 1394 standards are available from the IEEE. Ordering information can be found on the World Wide
Web at
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APPENDIX A
Supplemental Reference Documents