Re: Promise or VIA?

[Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda <lepalom@wol.es>]

A Dimecres 22 Setembre 2004 17:14, Paul Brook va escriure:
> On Wednesday 22 September 2004 16:04, Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda wrote:
> > A Dimecres 22 Setembre 2004 15:55, Ron Johnson va escriure:
> > > On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 15:48 +0200, Leopold Palomo Avellaneda wrote:
> > > > A Dimecres 22 Setembre 2004 15:38, Paul Brook va escriure:
> > > > > On Wednesday 22 September 2004 14:11, Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda
> > > > > wrote:
> > >
> > > [snip]
> > >
> > > > I don't understand one thing, if the controller is on the mainboard,
> > > > no in a board connected to the pci bus, the information goes throught
> > > > the pci BUS?
> > >
> > > Having *sockets* isn't a requirement for being a bus.
> >
> > ??? Well, I have to admit that the my english isn't very good but I don't
> > understand the answer. I'm talking about to have a HD connected to a
> > controller integrated in the motherboard, not to a controller in a board
> > connected to a PCI bus.
>
> "integrated in the motherboard" just means it's soldered directly onto the
> board (maybe combined with other chips), rather than sat on a plug-in board
> in a socket.
>
> From a logical and electrical point of view there's no real difference.
>
> Paul

Ok, thank's. 
So, it isn't worth it to have a SATA 150MB/s HD if you have the limitation of 
the 133 MB/s of the bus, no?

Leo