From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: SAS v SATA interface performance Date: Sat, 01 Dec 2007 15:40:58 -0500 Message-ID: <4751C6DA.3080409@garzik.org> References: <47506237.3000406@clear.net.nz> <47507F9A.3080109@msgid.tls.msk.ru> <20071130231705.51e056f4@the-village.bc.nu> <475110A8.5090709@clear.net.nz> <87f94c370712010637o5efa9c4rd9a86ec5a3cba6ff@mail.gmail.com> <4751B3DA.6030508@clear.net.nz> <4751BDA4.9080102@rtr.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:58957 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751847AbXLAUlG (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Dec 2007 15:41:06 -0500 In-Reply-To: <4751BDA4.9080102@rtr.ca> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Mark Lord Cc: Richard Scobie , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Mark Lord wrote: > SATA port multipliers (think, "hub") permit multiple drives > to be active simultaneously. Quite true, although the host controller could artificially limit this, giving the user a mistaken impression of their port multiplier being limited to one-command-per-N-drives. :) Jeff