Pawel Wojcik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Supermicro SATA controller is based on marvell chip which does not 
> support ATAPI devices.

Are there motherboards that include them?
Does this mean that if somenone buys the wrong MB, he is not able to 
connect a DVD Recorder and wrtie to it?


> Also, there is no ATAPI device support (coming very soon) for the 
> controllers operating under SATA framework. You can check if your SATA 
> devices are under SATA framework by verifying that sata module is loaded 
> ('modinfo | grep sata').

ATAPI support for sata is important as I expect that soon most DVD/BD/HD-DVD
writers will be SATA.

Jörg

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