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
I am running Debian on a SATA hard disk (my motherboard has ICH5 and SiI3112 chipset)
Right now I am using the SiI3112 but in order to do that I had to install Debian testing
because Woody intaller did not have the support.
I should say that the performance of my SATA under Linux is inferior to that of normal
ATA and the data rate I get from my SATA is very lousy comparing to ATA.
I read somewhere that this is going to get fixed in future versions of the SATA driver !
Hamid
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