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</style><table class="sidebar sidebar-collapse nomobile"><tbody><tr><th class="sidebar-title"><a href="Optical_disc" title="Optical disc">Optical discs</a></th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"></span></td></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content">
<div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="color: var(--color-base)">General</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content" style="text-align: left">
<ul><li><a href="Optical_disc" title="Optical disc">Optical disc</a></li>
<li><a href="Optical_disc_drive" title="Optical disc drive">Optical disc drive</a></li>
<li><a href="Optical_disc_authoring" title="Optical disc authoring">Optical disc authoring</a></li>
<li><a href="Optical_disc_authoring#Software" title="Optical disc authoring">Authoring software</a></li>
<li><a href="Optical_disc_recording_technologies" title="Optical disc recording technologies">Recording technologies</a>
<ul><li><a href="Optical_disc_recording_modes" title="Optical disc recording modes">Recording modes</a></li>
<li><a href="Packet_writing" title="Packet writing">Packet writing</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Burst_cutting_area" title="Burst cutting area">Burst cutting area</a></li></ul></div></div></td>
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<div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="color: var(--color-base)">Optical media types</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content" style="text-align: left">
<ul><li><b>Compact disc (<a href="Compact_disc" title="Compact disc">CD</a>):</b> <a href="Compact_Disc_Digital_Audio" title="Compact Disc Digital Audio">CD-DA</a>, <a href="CD-ROM" title="CD-ROM">CD-ROM</a>, <a href="CD-R" title="CD-R">CD-R</a>, <a href="CD-RW" title="CD-RW">CD-RW</a>, <a href="5.1_Music_Disc" class="mw-redirect" title="5.1 Music Disc">5.1 Music Disc</a>, Super Audio CD (<a href="Super_Audio_CD" title="Super Audio CD">SACD</a>), <a href="Photo_CD" title="Photo CD">Photo CD</a>, CD Video (<a href="CD_Video" title="CD Video">CDV</a>), Video CD (<a href="Video_CD" title="Video CD">VCD</a>), Super Video CD (<a href="Super_Video_CD" title="Super Video CD">SVCD</a>), <a href="CD%2BG" title="CD+G">CD+G</a>, <a href="CD-Text" title="CD-Text">CD-Text</a>, <a href="CD-ROM_XA" class="mw-redirect" title="CD-ROM XA">CD-ROM XA</a>, <a href="CD-i" title="CD-i">CD-i</a>, <a href="MIL-CD" class="mw-redirect" title="MIL-CD">MIL-CD</a>, <a href="Mini_CD" title="Mini CD">Mini CD</a></li>
<li><b>Digital Versatile Disc (<a href="DVD" title="DVD">DVD</a>):</b> <a href="DVD-R" class="mw-redirect" title="DVD-R">DVD-R</a>, <a href="DVD%2BR" class="mw-redirect" title="DVD+R">DVD+R</a>, <a href="DVD-R_DL" title="DVD-R DL">DVD-R DL</a>, <a href="DVD%2BR_DL" title="DVD+R DL">DVD+R DL</a>, <a href="DVD-R_DS" title="DVD-R DS">DVD-R DS</a>, <a href="DVD%2BR_DS" title="DVD+R DS">DVD+R DS</a>, <a href="DVD-RW" class="mw-redirect" title="DVD-RW">DVD-RW</a>, <a href="DVD%2BRW" class="mw-redirect" title="DVD+RW">DVD+RW</a>, <a href="DVD-RAM" title="DVD-RAM">DVD-RAM</a>, <a href="DVD-D" title="DVD-D">DVD-D</a>, <a href="DVD-Audio" title="DVD-Audio">DVD-A</a>, <a href="DVD-Video" title="DVD-Video">DVD-Video</a>, <a href="High-Definition_Versatile_Disc" title="High-Definition Versatile Disc">HVD</a>, <a href="Flexplay" title="Flexplay">Flexplay</a>, <a href="EcoDisc" title="EcoDisc">EcoDisc</a>, <a href="MiniDVD" title="MiniDVD">MiniDVD</a></li>
<li><b>Blu-ray Disc (<a href="Blu-ray" title="Blu-ray">BD</a>):</b> <a href="Blu-ray_Disc_recordable" title="Blu-ray Disc recordable">BD-R &amp; BD-RE</a>, <a href="Blu-ray_3D" class="mw-redirect" title="Blu-ray 3D">Blu-ray 3D</a>, <a href="Blu-ray#Mini_Blu-ray_Disc" title="Blu-ray">Mini Blu-ray Disc</a>, 4K Blu-ray (<a href="Ultra_HD_Blu-ray" title="Ultra HD Blu-ray">Ultra HD Blu-ray</a>)</li>
<li><b><a href="M-DISC" title="M-DISC">M-DISC</a></b></li>
<li><b><a href="Universal_Media_Disc" title="Universal Media Disc">Universal Media Disc (UMD)</a></b></li>
<li><b><a href="Enhanced_Versatile_Disc" title="Enhanced Versatile Disc">Enhanced Versatile Disc (EVD)</a></b></li>
<li><b><a href="Forward_Versatile_Disc" title="Forward Versatile Disc">Forward Versatile Disc (FVD)</a></b></li>
<li><b><a href="Holographic_Versatile_Disc" title="Holographic Versatile Disc">Holographic Versatile Disc (HVD)</a></b></li>
<li><b><a href="China_Blue_High-definition_Disc" title="China Blue High-definition Disc">China Blue High-definition Disc (CBHD)</a></b></li>
<li><b><a href="HD_DVD" title="HD DVD">HD DVD</a>:</b> <a href="HD_DVD-R" class="mw-redirect" title="HD DVD-R">HD DVD-R</a>, <a href="HD_DVD-RW" class="mw-redirect" title="HD DVD-RW">HD DVD-RW</a>, <a href="HD_DVD-RAM" class="mw-redirect" title="HD DVD-RAM">HD DVD-RAM</a></li>
<li><b><a href="High-Definition_Versatile_Multilayer_Disc" class="mw-redirect" title="High-Definition Versatile Multilayer Disc">High-Definition Versatile Multilayer Disc (HD VMD)</a></b></li>
<li><b><a href="VCDHD" title="VCDHD">VCDHD</a></b></li>
<li><b><a href="GD-ROM" title="GD-ROM">GD-ROM</a></b></li>
<li><b><a href="Personal_Video_Disc" class="mw-redirect" title="Personal Video Disc">Personal Video Disc (PVD)</a></b></li>
<li><b>MiniDisc (<a href="MiniDisc" title="MiniDisc">MD</a>):</b> <a href="MD_Data" title="MD Data">MD Data, MD Data2</a></li>
<li><b><a href="Hi-MD" title="Hi-MD">Hi-MD</a></b></li>
<li><b>LaserDisc (<a href="LaserDisc" title="LaserDisc">LD</a>):</b> <a href="LD-ROM" class="mw-redirect" title="LD-ROM">LD-ROM</a>, <a href="LV-ROM" title="LV-ROM">LV-ROM</a></li>
<li><b><a href="Video_Single_Disc" title="Video Single Disc">Video Single Disc (VSD)</a></b></li>
<li><b><a href="Magneto-optical_drive" title="Magneto-optical drive">Magneto-optical discs</a></b></li>
<li><b><a href="Ultra_Density_Optical" title="Ultra Density Optical">Ultra Density Optical (UDO)</a></b></li>
<li><b><a href="3D_optical_data_storage" title="3D optical data storage">3D optical data storage</a></b></li>
<li><b><a href="Stacked_Volumetric_Optical_Disc" title="Stacked Volumetric Optical Disc">Stacked Volumetric Optical Disk (SVOD)</a></b></li>
<li><b><a href="Fluorescent_Multilayer_Disc" class="mw-redirect" title="Fluorescent Multilayer Disc">Fluorescent Multilayer Disc</a> </b></li>
<li><b><a href="Hyper_CD-ROM" title="Hyper CD-ROM">Hyper CD-ROM</a></b></li>
<li><b><a href="Nintendo_optical_discs" title="Nintendo optical discs">Nintendo optical disc (NOD)</a></b></li>
<li><b><a href="Archival_Disc" title="Archival Disc">Archival Disc</a> (AD)</b></li>
<li><b><a href="Professional_Disc" title="Professional Disc">Professional Disc</a></b></li>
<li><b><a href="DataPlay" title="DataPlay">DataPlay</a></b></li></ul></div></div></td>
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<div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="color: var(--color-base)">Standards</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content" style="text-align: left">
<ul><li><a href="Small_Form_Factor_Committee" title="Small Form Factor Committee">SFF</a> <a href="ATA_Packet_Interface" class="mw-redirect" title="ATA Packet Interface">ATAPI</a>/<a href="SCSI_Multimedia_Commands" title="SCSI Multimedia Commands">MMC</a>
<ul><li><a href="Mount_Rainier_(packet_writing)" title="Mount Rainier (packet writing)">Mount Rainier</a> (packet writing)</li>
<li><a href="Layer_Jump_Recording" title="Layer Jump Recording">Mount Fuji</a> (layer jump recording)</li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Rainbow_Books" title="Rainbow Books">Rainbow Books</a></li>
<li>File systems
<ul><li><a href="ISO_9660" title="ISO 9660">ISO 9660</a>
<ul><li><a href="Joliet_(file_system)" class="mw-redirect" title="Joliet (file system)">Joliet</a></li>
<li><a href="Romeo_file_system" class="mw-redirect" title="Romeo file system">Romeo</a></li>
<li><a href="Rock_Ridge" class="mw-redirect" title="Rock Ridge">Rock Ridge</a> / SUSP</li>
<li><a href="El_Torito_(CD-ROM_standard)" class="mw-redirect" title="El Torito (CD-ROM standard)">El Torito</a></li>
<li><a href="Apple_ISO_9660_Extensions" class="mw-redirect" title="Apple ISO 9660 Extensions">Apple ISO 9660 Extensions</a></li></ul></li>
<li>Universal Disk Format (<a href="Universal_Disk_Format" title="Universal Disk Format">UDF</a>)</li>
<li><a href="ISO_13490" title="ISO 13490">ISO 13490</a></li></ul></li></ul></div></div></td>
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<div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="color: var(--color-base)">See also</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content" style="text-align: left">
<ul><li><a href="History_of_optical_storage_media" class="mw-redirect" title="History of optical storage media">History of optical storage media</a></li>
<li><a href="High-definition_optical_disc_format_war" title="High-definition optical disc format war">High-definition optical disc format war</a></li></ul></div></div></td>
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<p><b>ATAPI</b> (<b>ATA Packet Interface</b>) is a protocol used with the <a href="Parallel_ATA" title="Parallel ATA">Parallel ATA</a> (IDE) and <a href="Serial_ATA" class="mw-redirect" title="Serial ATA">Serial ATA</a> standards so that a greater variety of devices can be connected to a computer than with the ATA command set alone. It carries <a href="SCSI" title="SCSI">SCSI</a> commands and responses through the ATA interface.
</p><p>ATAPI devices include CD-ROM and <a href="DVD-ROM" class="mw-redirect" title="DVD-ROM">DVD-ROM</a> drives, <a href="Tape_drive" title="Tape drive">tape drives</a>, <a href="Magneto-optical_drive" title="Magneto-optical drive">magneto-optical drives</a>, <a href="CompactFlash" title="CompactFlash">CompactFlash drives</a>, and large-capacity <a href="Floppy_disk" title="Floppy disk">floppy</a> drives such as the <a href="Zip_drive" title="Zip drive">Zip drive</a> and <a href="SuperDisk_drive" class="mw-redirect" title="SuperDisk drive">SuperDisk drive</a>.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2></div>
<p>ATA was originally designed for, and worked only with, hard disks and devices that could emulate them. The <a href="Small_Form_Factor_Committee" title="Small Form Factor Committee">Small Form Factor Committee</a> (SFF) introduced ATAPI to be used for a variety of other devices that require functions beyond those necessary for hard disks. For example, any removable media device needs a "media eject" command, and a way for the host to determine whether the media is present, and these were not provided in the ATA protocol.
</p><p>The Small Form Factor committee approached this problem by defining ATAPI as part of the fourth generation of ATA. ATAPI carries SCSI commands through ATA, so ATAPI devices are "speaking SCSI" other than at the electrical interface. In fact, some early ATAPI devices were simply SCSI devices with an ATA/ATAPI to SCSI protocol converter added on. The SCSI commands and responses are embedded in "packets" (hence "ATA Packet Interface") for transmission on the ATA cable. This interfaces ATA with any device class for which a SCSI command set has been defined. ATAPI devices are also "speaking ATA" because the ATA physical interface and protocol are still being used to send the packets.
</p><p>The <a href="Direct_Memory_Access" class="mw-redirect" title="Direct Memory Access">Direct Memory Access</a> feature for the ATA interface was introduced along with ATAPI.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Specification">Specification</h2></div>
<p>The SCSI commands and responses used by each class of ATAPI device (CD-ROM, tape, etc.) are described in other documents or specifications specific to those device classes and are not within ATA/ATAPI or the <a href="T13_subcommittee" class="mw-redirect" title="T13 subcommittee">T13</a> committee's purview. One commonly used set is defined in the <a href="MultiMedia_Commands" class="mw-redirect" title="MultiMedia Commands">MMC</a> SCSI command set.
</p><p>ATAPI was adopted as part of ATA in <a href="Parallel_ATA#NCITS_317-1998" title="Parallel ATA">INCITS 317-1998</a>, <i>AT Attachment with Packet Interface Extension (ATA/ATAPI-4)</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<ul><li><a href="SCSI_/_ATA_Translation" title="SCSI / ATA Translation">SCSI / ATA Translation</a>&nbsp;– Computer device communications standard</li></ul>
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<ul><li><cite id="CITEREFNecasek2021" class="citation web cs1">Necasek, Michal (24 November 2021). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.os2museum.com/wp/the-secret-history-of-atapi/">"The Secret History of ATAPI"</a>. <i>OS/2 Museum</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">25 November</span> 2021</span>.</cite></li></ul></div><!--htdig_noindex--><div><div class="zim-footer">
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