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No.
What I said was what I meant.
Refer to these documents:
"Serial ATA II: Port Multiplier, Revision 1.1"
> http://www.sata-io.org/docs/pm_1_1_Gold.pdf
section 7.4.1. "Port Multiplier Discovery (Informative)"
"Serial ATA II: Extensions to Serial ATa 1.0a, Revision 1.2"
> http://www.sata-io.org/docs/S2Ext_1_2_Gold.pdf
Given the <current> (external) SATA specs, a serial ATA and a serial ATAPI
device would have the same poweron signature.
So, we have unique signatures for
parallel: ATA
parallel: ATAPI
serial: ATA <and> ATAPI
serial: port multiplier
Now, it is <another> question to ask if that is proper or not,
which I leave for someone else to answer.
Thank You !!!
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Regarding e04127r0, there was a thread on the T13 reflector back in May
2003 titled "Serial ATA signature change from 1.0a to ATA/ATAPI-7 v1r2"
that noticed the problem and (I thought) agreed to resolve it.
Unfortunately it was apparently never fixed. I agree with your proposed
fix.
Note there is a typo in e04127r0 section 2.3 (in the background
section):
"There was never any intention that a serial ATA device have a different
signature _than a serial ATAPI device_."
It should say "than a parallel ATA device." ATA and ATAPI need to have
different signatures, as do SATA and SATAPI. SATA=ATA and SATAPI=ATAPI
is fine.
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Rob Elliott, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hewlett-Packard Industry Standard Server Storage Advanced Technology
https://ecardfile.com/id/RobElliott
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> This one was passed around at the August meeting.
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> e04134r0 ? Supplemental info for e04128r0 (Assignments for TCG)
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> These are new proposals
> e04130r0 - Increased Self-Test Polling Time
> e04127r0 - Correction to Serial ATA Signature
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> This is an update to the existing proposal
> e04128r2 - Assignments for TCG
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