On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 12:17:59AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Rick Gigger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Do serial ATA drives suffer from the same issue?
> 
> Um, not an expert, but I think ATA is the same as IDE except for bus
> width and transfer rate.  If either one allows for multiple concurrent
> read/write transactions I'll be very surprised.

Well, some googleing around seems to indicate that Serial ATA I/ATA-6 has
Tagged Command Queueing (TCQ) which is adding this feature specifically.
Whether it is a mandatory part of the spec I don't know.

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