Re: Silicon Image 3112A SATA trouble

[Jeff Garzik]

Craig Bradney wrote:
> On the topic of speeds.. hdparm -t gives me 56Mb/s on my Maxtor 80Mb 8mb
> cache PATA drive. I got that with 2.4.23 pre 8 which was ATA100 and get
> just a little more on ATA133 with 2.6. Not sure what people are
> expecting on SATA.


Serial ATA merely changes the bus, a.k.a. the interface between drive 
and system.

This doesn't mean that the drive itself will be any faster...  most 
first-gen SATA drives are just PATA drives with a new circuit board and 
new firmware.  Just like some SCSI and IDE drives are exactly the same 
platters, but have differing circuit boards and connectors...

	Jeff



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