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- CT -

July 2nd 04 02:15 AM

fake SATA drives?

I was talking to a storage vendor today, and he mentioned that most SATA
drives on the market are really IDE drives with a SATA bridge, only 1 or 2
are true SATAs...

This seems to mean the "fake" SATA drives will not have the SATA features,
such as native cmd queueing. Which ones are the real SATA drives? Anyone
have a list?

Clayton

Ron Reaugh

July 2nd 04 03:10 AM

"- CT -" wrote in message
ink.net...
I was talking to a storage vendor today, and he mentioned that most SATA
drives on the market are really IDE drives with a SATA bridge, only 1 or 2
are true SATAs...

This seems to mean the "fake" SATA drives will not have the SATA features,
such as native cmd queueing. Which ones are the real SATA drives? Anyone
have a list?

Are there any commercially released controllers and OS drivers that support
SATA command queuing yet?

Barry Drodge

July 3rd 04 02:23 AM

Everything you ever wanted to know about SATA

http://www.ata-atapi.com/sata.htm

Barry

"Ron Reaugh" wrote in
:

"- CT -" wrote in message
ink.net...
I was talking to a storage vendor today, and he mentioned that most
SATA drives on the market are really IDE drives with a SATA bridge,
only 1 or 2 are true SATAs...

This seems to mean the "fake" SATA drives will not have the SATA
features, such as native cmd queueing. Which ones are the real SATA
drives? Anyone have a list?

Are there any commercially released controllers and OS drivers that
support SATA command queuing yet?

Ron Reaugh

July 3rd 04 04:08 AM

"Barry Drodge" wrote in message
...
Everything you ever wanted to know about SATA

http://www.ata-atapi.com/sata.htm

A wacko page full of utter nonsense.

The page impeaches itself immediately with "connectors aren't
shielded"....DDUUUHH.......PATA connectors aren't shielded and internal SCSI
connectors aren't shielded. The author of this page is OFF!

"Ron Reaugh" wrote in
:

"- CT -" wrote in message
ink.net...
I was talking to a storage vendor today, and he mentioned that most
SATA drives on the market are really IDE drives with a SATA bridge,
only 1 or 2 are true SATAs...

This seems to mean the "fake" SATA drives will not have the SATA
features, such as native cmd queueing. Which ones are the real SATA
drives? Anyone have a list?

Are there any commercially released controllers and OS drivers that
support SATA command queuing yet?

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