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Frank Shu wrote:
The issue is that to flag a SATA port as an external/internal port
solely is SATA controller hardware, plus BIOS function. But, the only
open spec for SATA controller is AHCI, and not all SATA controller
chipset uses AHCI spec. On the other hand, SATA protocol spec is a well
accepted spec by the industry, but there is no place for this. For this
reason, Microsoft has submitted a white paper/proposal to SATA-IO six
months ago. But, due to the lack of interests at that time, the proposal
has been put on the back seat. Now, I have a system with an external
SATA port on the back panel and an external 250GB SATA HDD. As a user,
I'm experiencing all issues that I talked about at the beginning of this
thread. Again, the industry as a whole needs to address them now. Or the
usage of external SATA device(HDD)will be very limited.
I'm not sure I understand anything you have said about
external/removable storage devices... Sorry... What does AHCI or not
AHCI have to do with any of this? Why does a "white paper/proposal" for
this have to be submitted to the SATA-IO secret society? Why can't
everyone see the proposal? And what does T13 or SATA-IO have to do with
any of this anyway?
Yes, the industry needs to address the issues around how software is
licensed and data security - especially in the modern age when many
people are going to want to put their software and data on portable
storage device so that they can have use their software and data on any
system without having to carry around a stupid notebook computer. I
should not have to carry around a notebook just to run my favorite email
program or access my schedule file or use my favorite browser to access
the internet. I should be able to plug my external/portable storage
device into any system and have access to my software and my data. And
please don't tell me that I should expect to use these stupid internet
application sites to store/access my data. But none of this has anything
to do with T13 or SATA-IO, does it?
Hale
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