[ILUG] Mandrake 10

[Paul Jakma]

On Tue, 27 Apr 2004, Rick Moen wrote:

> Wow.  We _really_ don't have common ground for discussion.

Probably.
 
> Well, no.  The main point is the thinner cables, with a small
> additional gain from reduced power consumption (resulting
> indirectly from the much lower voltage).  So, tinier, cooler drives
> in tinier boxes.

Right. That'd be what SATA 1.0a brings to the table.

>  Otherwise, there's not much substantive improvement.

Not in SATA 1.0a, no, that intentionally specified physical layer
only, simply carrying ATA and ATAPI commands. But SATA 1.1 (aka SATA
II) adds command queueing, SAF-TE, signal recovery / hot-swap (device
quiescence, comms state (stop/start/reset - whole state machine)),
async notification, etc.

The host controller interfaces tend to be far far nicer and more
modern too, from what i gather from Jeff Garzik's posts.
 
> Suckers have money, too.  ;->

true.

regards,
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