So it's no wonder that ATAPI killed off SCSI CD drives in PCs. Since it _was_ SCSI, it really just killed off having to buy an extra host bus adapter card to send the same command set.
Sometimes that stuff could get pretty baroque. Back in the day I had a 20 MB HD for my Atari 8 bit computer, which involved an adapter from the Atari proprietary bus to SCSI/SASI, then a second adapter from SCSI to the MFM HD interface. You needed one of the custom DOSes to make use of it, as the standard Atari DOS had never envisioned things like hard drives.
At that point I didn't even want plug'n'play or hotplug because getting something set up once was enough for you to never desire to change it.
Like the old saying goes, "there are valid technical reasons that demand that you sacrifice a black goat here and there to your SCSI chain".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_mass_storage_device_class#...
UAS is yet another variant of passing SCSI commands through USB.
Before(?) SAT, there was Cypress' ATACB for the same purpose: https://www.cypress.com/documentation/datasheets/cy7c68300c-...
We can say same of DATA
"Dicussed, Archived, Translated, Attributed (Falsely)"
I had a bad disk once and whatever happened affected the drive head. This of course meant that every other disk I had was then similarly corrupted. I know people that used many Zip drives and were quite happy with them, but I never trusted Iomega again after that.