Re: Silicon Image 3112A SATA trouble

Jeff Garzik
2003-11-30T18:27:28Z

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