Re: Does Linux support powering down SATA drives?

Jeff Garzik
2005-11-21T16:51:20Z

On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 10:21:21AM -0600, Rob Landley wrote:
> On Sunday 20 November 2005 01:22, asmith@vtrl.co.uk wrote:
> > I would agree with your view on IDE becoming obsolete on hard drives, but I
> > as yet, am not aware of any CD/DVD drives with a SATA interface.
>
> Laptops?

Laptops will likely get S/ATAPI later rather than sooner.

But there are definitely S/ATAPI devices out there. Most are first
generation, which means they are PATA devices with a SATA bridge (thus
they appear to the end user to be SATA).

Jeff