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This technique was originally described in Hale Landis's ATADRVR (www.ata-atapi.com), and later found its way into the ATA/ATAPI spec.
Write a pattern to the ATA shadow registers, and if a device is present, it will respond by correctly storing and echoing back the ATA shadow register contents.
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