On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 03:03:39PM +0000, Paulo Silva wrote: | Hi all, | | I'm going to buy a new computer and I was wondering if there is any | support in the kernel for the new SATA controllers. I'm thinking in | acquiring an Asus P4P8X motherboard with an Intel ICH5 SATA Chipset. Supposedly it should work : http://lkml.org/lkml/2003/10/1/147 | Anyone has experience with this kind of hardware? Not yet. My new machine at work is supposed to arrive sometime in the next two weeks. | Does the SATA technology really turns disk access faster? In theory, at least. The basis isn't a different disk but a different interface for moving data between the disk and the CPU. I guess the PATA (Parallel ATA is the traditional 80-pin IDE cable) protocol has just about reached its theoretical limit for performance, and the design of the SATA protocol overcomes those limitations. -D -- > SELECT * FROM users WHERE clue > 0 0 rows returned (http://www.thinkgeek.com/images/products/zoom/no-clue.jpg) www: http://dman13.dyndns.org/~dman/ jabber: dman@dman13.dyndns.org
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