Comment 14 for bug 96693

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Shirish Agarwal (shirishag75) wrote :

reading in wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AT_Attachment it seems AT runs stuff at 16 bits only.
 [quote=wikipedia] Parallel ATA cables transfer data 16 bits at a time (it is a common misconception that they transfer 32 bits of data at a time, mainly because the 40 cable ribbon would appear to allow this). [/quote]