Re: serial ata

["Bryan J.Smith" <b.j.smith@ieee.org>]

L. V. Lammert wrote:
> SATA is one drive per port, IME.

Actually, so is parallel ATA in UltraDMA modes.
But most drives support EIDE PIO as well, so UltraATA is commonly (and, 
by specification, wrongly) used in a master/slave setup.

Ziff-Davis ran an article in PCMag/PCWorld in 2003 that said SATA 
supports up to 127 devices.
Most of the other claims in the article were just dead wrong as well.
SATA controllers typically have a high port count because at 7-pins 
(3-ground), serial makes this possible.
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Bryan J. Smith   mailto:b.j.smith@ieee.org
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