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On Oct 14, 2004, at 2:11 PM, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:

>> Maybe SATA does a better job when no specific drivers are present.
>> How much do you get out of each disk ?
>
> Does any ATI chipset actually have integrated SATA?  I have an IXP9100
> motherboard with SATA, but that SATA support is provided by an SiI
> part, as far as I can tell (I can't find it on the motherboard, but
> the familiar SiI BIOS runs when the machine starts, and so forth).

I would also be REALLY surprised if SATA did better w/ PIO.  SATA is a 
packet-oriented protocol, and each and every register write requires a 
SATA packet to be sent down the wire.

         -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@shagadelic.org>

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