On Mon, 2008-03-10 at 20:45 +0000, Chris Emerson wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 01:21:55PM -0500, hgraf wrote:
> > I've created some hardware to emulate an IDE hard drive. I've connected
> > this emulated drive to a computer using a USB2.0-PATA bridge.
> > 
> > It works well, however, due to the way things need to work it would make
> > my life easier if I could prevent the OS from writing to my "drive".
> 
> Can you make it look like a CD drive instead?

CD Drives don't use the basic ATA commands to transfer data, they have a
much more advanced protocol to the PC called ATAPI. I'd prefer staying
away from trying to emulation that whole stack... :)

TTYL
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