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YASAT- (yet another serial ata thread) anyone anounce drive availability yet?

What a co-inky-dink I was about to post about S-ATA not being available too ... I went to the maxtor site and nada... This is pretty gay because alot of mobos have this feature and not a single drive is on the market yet...
 
Annother related question. Have there been any chipsets announced with SATA support yet? Even if the drives start shipping what good are they if we have to use 3rd party controllers that run on the PCI bus?
 
Originally posted by: Netcraazzy
Annother related question. Have there been any chipsets announced with SATA support yet? Even if the drives start shipping what good are they if we have to use 3rd party controllers that run on the PCI bus?
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There are quite a few mobos out that have an on-board SATA controller, which is chipset-independant. (The name of the controller chip manufacturer escapes me... Silicon-something-or-other.)
 
Right now nobody (at least mainstream market) has a controller integrated into their chipset. Currently, they are just using solutions like the Marvel chips to convert the parallel ATA signals into Serial ATA. This solution works to get the interface in use, but like Netcraazzy has already alluded to, limits you to the parallel controller in use (so max ATA133).

As for the drives, hopefully soon. I read that intels next ICH version (4 maybe??) will have onboard SATA, but I don't recall if that is granite bay or its successor...

 
Yes ICH4 is supposed to have SATA support and is an upcoming offering from nVidia and SiS. From what I've heard/read. Unfortunately I haven't read anything on SATA support relating to VIA or ALi.

Thorin
 
I personally see no point in buying one until we get actuall SATA Chipset Support, it'll be alot faster.
 
Originally posted by: Tabb
I personally see no point in buying one until we get actuall SATA Chipset Support, it'll be alot faster.
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If the parallel to serial adapters for hard drives weren't $30-60 each, I'd do it just to end the nightmare of ribbon cables in my case...
 
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