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> There REALLY needs to be a means to discover whether sata-bridge is > in line with parallel device on a serial ATA bus. Too many of these > situations need to be dealt with by driver software to assert various > work-arounds and what not. For example, ATAPI on a sata-bridge. Eek. > As in adding a bit in IDENTIFY to indicate SATA or maybe S <-> P or both. I know there is already alot of devices out there that wouldn't support it, but the longer the committee waits, the more there will be. It just sounds to me as though it is going to be needed. Expecting hardware to be 100% compatible is not reality. That is not meant in a bad way, just the way it is. I worked on HDD's for years and I don't think the next generation (or even revision) of hardware was ever 100% compatible with the previous. That's what lead to the old joke of "we'll just fix it in firmware". That was why I chuckled when everyone kept telling me SATA was 100% transparent and it was 100% hardware doing it. Gary Laatsch [EMAIL PROTECTED]
