On Monday 24 November 2003 05:12 pm, T. Joseph Carter wrote: : On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 11:06:02AM -0800, Bob Miller wrote: : > My P4P800 motherboard has two SATA connectors. Does that mean : > I could hook up a max of two SATA drives to it? : : Yes, just two drives. You've got a hybrid system with the typical : limitations of hybrid systems: the new technology is supported, but you : will find ourself wanting an upgrade when the new technology becomes the : standard one. : : Seven years ago I bought my first system with PCI slots. There were three : common standards of the time for improving ISA: EISA, VLB, and PCI. VLB's : time had since passed and, and it was common still to see boards with two : ISA, two EISA or VLB, and two PCI. The PCI on these boards was so-so, and : there were only two. PCI-only boards were unheard of (and technically : speaking still are for ia32 machines which still provide an ISA bridge for : AT keyboards, PS/2 mice, and floppy drives..) But still, ISA implemented : as a bridge to PCI allowed PCI to be the dominant system architecture and : its performance has been good enough until now.
What about MCA <shivver!> we wont mention the oddball ones like std-32 or pc104.... : : At that time, I had the foresight to buy a board with only two ISA slots : and four PCI. They were rare in those days. Very rare. Two years : later it was still common to see three ISA slots, though it was no longer : uncommon to have only two. It didn't matter, though, because the PCI was : not constrained by ISA. : : : SATA on your board is constrained both by IDE and by PCI. There;s no help : for it I'm afraid. Look for PCI-X systems with SATA in the near future to : provide more ports and more throughput than either IDE or PCI. : : _______________________________________________ : EuG-LUG mailing list : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug -- > Linux is not user-friendly. It _is_ user-friendly. It is not ignorant-friendly and idiot-friendly. -- Seen somewhere on the net _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
