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Well, if there is some agreement between T13 and SATA then it would need to be public. Other than a few memos back and forth I haven't seen any other documents. But lets get real here... We all know that SATA will not be released to T13 until a certain company (the one that likes to create secret societies) knows that enough products are shipping that changing the spec will not be of much value. Just watch if/when someone attempts to propose a change to SATA at T13 - there will probably be some discussion but we all know the T13 members that are also members of the secret society will not vote to approve a change. Didn't you watch how SMART and several other features were developed and turned over to T13? The only changes that will be allowed will be minor technical changes to cover SATA products that are shipping in volume that fail to meet some minor detail of the SATA spec. Sigh... Yes... We are probably stuck with yet another spec (soon to be standard) that is half baked. Yet another standard that will take years to sort out and fix up. Oh well... Such is life these days. In the mean time: Long live SATA! SCSI is dead! FC is dead! SATA fixes every device interface problem there ever was! Oh yea... I forgot... 1394 also fixed every device interface problem there ever was. Hale --Original Message Text--- From: Edwin J. Pole II Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2003 21:28:23 -0800 It is my understanding that, once SATA-1 becomes part of the ATA/ATAPI-7 specification, it is totally under the control of T13 including the technical content. This is likely detailed in the agreement between T13 and the SATA promoters. $ *** Hale Landis *** www.ata-atapi.com ***
