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From: Stefan Smietanowski <stesmi@stesmi.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] speed up SATA
Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2004 09:32:59 +0200
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To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
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Hi Jeff.

> I'm about to add a raft of SATA-2 hardware, all of which are queued. The 
> standard depth is 32, but one board supports a whopping depth of 256.

Speaking of which .. I just read an announcement that someone (of course
the name eludes me) announced a DVD Burner that's SATA.

Found it:

http://www.plextor.com/english/news/press/712SA_pr.htm

a) Are there provisions in the SATA (1) SPEC for support of
non-disk units?

b) if (strcmp(a, "no"))
      Do you know anything about it, ie is it SATA1 or 2 or what?

c) Let's ponder one gets a unit like this - is it usable with
libata yet?

d) if (strcmp(c, "no"))
      Will it? :)

// Stefan