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I am not sure how anyone is specifically planning on handling anything yet. I am waiting like all other non-members to see how everyone implements things. Master/Slave implies same base address, there is no other way to handle. To me it would be obvious that the bridge interface would handle converting things if it is going to allow this mode. Of course, assuming always gets me in trouble. gkl -----Original Message----- From: Gana Pat [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2002 3:17 PM To: Gary Laatsch; Pat LaVarre; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [t13] SATA Hi Gary et all, Would it be possible to run as PM/PS with 2 port SATA ? I am not sure how it can work, since we may have two base address registers and each one corresponds to one port and our host software always assumes that the Master & Slave will have the same base address. I guess, i am causing more ripples.....:-) Gana.. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gary Laatsch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Pat LaVarre" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2002 2:06 PM Subject: RE: [t13] SATA > This message is from the T13 list server. > > > Yes a SATA controller is 1 drive per port and 2 ports for controller (2 drives). I think configurable as either pm/ps, pm,sm, or sm/ss. Usig the first or last would allow you to still run one of the PATA controllers. Using the middle config would take up both legacy channels. > > > gkl > > -----Original Message----- > From: Pat LaVarre [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2002 1:50 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [t13] SATA > > > This message is from the T13 list server. > > > > I think the original question was > > "Does SATA support only a master and slave on each bus?" > > Does it even support that much? > > I had heard SATA supported one device per port: thus a master only, no slave. A min cost host might support the connection of a boot hard drive, a CD drive, and nothing else ... unless the Else included a more or less vendor-specific hub of its own to give the appearance of a daisy chain, like parallel printer port devices often do. > > Is that baseless slander? > > Curiously yours, Pat LaVarre >
