Re: Crashed Drive, libata wedges when trying to recover data

Brad Campbell
2004-09-03T19:50:02Z

Greg Stark wrote:

> I read somewhere that the current generation of SATA drives from everyone
> except Seagate were really PATA with a "bridge". It sounded like BS to me, but
> is that why they're behaving like PATA drives as far as these error codes? Or
> is it simply a question of the shared firmware codebase?
>

Turn your Maxtor over and have a look. There is the bridge chip sitting on the bottom of the board.