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. -- Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > "All that is needed for the forces of evil to triumph is for enough good > men to do nothing." - Edmond Burke > "The penalty good people pay for not being interested in politics is to be > governed by people worse than themselves." - Plato
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