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wolfgang kern

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Jan 2, 2010, 7:32:25 AM1/2/10
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Happy New Year,

IDE-drives seem to be out of date now, so I have to
implement full SATA-support ASAP (BIOS-independent).

what I got (t13,sata) so far:

e07131r0-SATA-IO_Commands_for_ATA-8.pdf
which contains just changes to some 'clauses', but
I couldn't find 'e06150r5'(NCQ) nor where the source
of this 'clauses' are ment to be.

D1699r6a-ATA8-ACS.pdf
where I saw only two serial commands (60h,61h)
and hints like "see SATA 2.5/2.6" w/o links to it.
SATA-IO.org announces just dated books on amazon ... ?

And I stumbled over alot of (almost useless) information
on: "why is SATA that good", and several change-records
to documents I can't find, so I'm kinda lost yet.

My collection on ATA/ATAPI 4...7 mentions Serial ATA,
but just like 'reserved for ...'.

I figured myself how to detect SATA-controller/drives
and ports on my current machine by scanning PCI, but I
have no idea if this is standard or vendor-specific.

Not to mention that SATA comes in several versions ...
Native IDE ?
SCSI-based ?
more than a bit confused, I'd appreciate any light here.

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wolfgang

Rod Pemberton

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Jan 2, 2010, 8:06:47 AM1/2/10
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"wolfgang kern" <now...@never.at> wrote in message
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> Happy New Year,
>
> IDE-drives seem to be out of date now, so I have to
> implement full SATA-support ASAP (BIOS-independent).
>
> what I got (t13,sata) so far:
>
> e07131r0-SATA-IO_Commands_for_ATA-8.pdf
> which contains just changes to some 'clauses', but
> I couldn't find 'e06150r5'(NCQ) nor where the source
> of this 'clauses' are ment to be.
>

revision 3

http://www.t13.org/Documents/UploadedDocuments/docs2007/e07131r3-SATA-IO_Commands_for_ATA-8.pdf

> D1699r6a-ATA8-ACS.pdf
> where I saw only two serial commands (60h,61h)
> and hints like "see SATA 2.5/2.6" w/o links to it.
> SATA-IO.org announces just dated books on amazon ... ?
>

You might try this one (t10):

http://www.t10.org/t13/docs2003/e03104r0.pdf

HTH,


Rod Pemberton


Rod Pemberton

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Jan 2, 2010, 8:17:33 AM1/2/10
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"wolfgang kern" <now...@never.at> wrote in message
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> Happy New Year,
>
> IDE-drives seem to be out of date now, so I have to
> implement full SATA-support ASAP (BIOS-independent).
>
> [...]

> Not to mention that SATA comes in several versions ...

Another one to look at:

http://www.t10.org/ftp/t10/document.03/03-264r1.pdf


RP


wolfgang kern

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Jan 3, 2010, 7:04:38 AM1/3/10
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Rod Pemberton replied:

>> IDE-drives seem to be out of date now, so I have to
>> implement full SATA-support ASAP (BIOS-independent).
>>
>> what I got (t13,sata) so far:
>>
>> e07131r0-SATA-IO_Commands_for_ATA-8.pdf
>> which contains just changes to some 'clauses', but
>> I couldn't find 'e06150r5'(NCQ) nor where the source
>> of this 'clauses' are ment to be.

> revision 3

> http://www.t13.org/Documents/UploadedDocuments/docs2007/e07131r3-SATA-IO_Commands_for_ATA-8.pdf

Yeah, I have all four variants of this ...
one day I migth figure where this clauses reside ;)

>> D1699r6a-ATA8-ACS.pdf
>> where I saw only two serial commands (60h,61h)
>> and hints like "see SATA 2.5/2.6" w/o links to it.
>> SATA-IO.org announces just dated books on amazon ... ?

> You might try this one (t10):

> http://www.t10.org/t13/docs2003/e03104r0.pdf

And from your other post:

>> Not to mention that SATA comes in several versions ...

> Another one to look at:
> http://www.t10.org/ftp/t10/document.03/03-264r1.pdf


Oh yes, this two add some bits into this puzzle.

Thanks a lot Rod,
could you complete your SATA driver ?

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wolfgang


Rod Pemberton

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Jan 3, 2010, 7:12:01 AM1/3/10
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"wolfgang kern" <now...@never.at> wrote in message
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>
> could you complete your SATA driver ?
>

Uh, I've haven't started my IDE driver... :-)


RP


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