From: "Lewis G Rosenthal" Received: from [162.83.95.100] (account lgrosenthal HELO [192.168.200.53]) by 2rosenthals.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.3) with ESMTPA id 880256 for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Wed, 14 Feb 2007 18:41:52 -0500 Message-ID: <45D39E3D.7050109@2rosenthals.com> Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 18:41:49 -0500 Organization: Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; U; Warp 4.5; en-US; rv:1.9a2pre) Gecko/20070206 MultiZilla/1.8.3.0a SeaMonkey/1.5a MIME-Version: 1.0 To: OS/2 Wireless Users Mailing List Subject: Re: [OS2Wireless]Re: PCI-S & SATA (Was:Re: Intel 3945 support in GenMAC) References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 02/14/07 03:11 pm, Ed Durrant thus wrote : > Lewis G Rosenthal wrote: >>> >> I think that it's more the fact that it is a PCI Express machine with >> SATA drive architecture than anything else (though I understand that >> there are sound issues with it, as well). More and more of the newer >> generation of machines will be SATA and will have PCI Express instead >> of mini-PCI, and this, of course, is someting we need to watch in the >> market and be prepared to support. >> >> Thanks for clarifying the issue with the T30, Ed. ;-) >> > Before I get too far off topic - let me simply add that I am running > eCS and OS/2 on this machine which is a SATA / PCI-express system, > albeit towerPC not a laptop, so at least with the chipset used on this > ASUS M2V-TVM motherboard, we already appear to have the necessary > support. So the T60 "may" work, apart from the usual WinModem problems. > The SATA in the T60 needs to be configured (in the BIOS) for legacy (compatibility) mode or Dani won't be able to access the drive (at least, the last build I tried). SATA is an odd thing, kind of reminscent of the early days of IDE when different manufacturers had slightly different implementations which didn't always play well together (the rule of thumb once was to not mix manufacturers on drives on the same IDE channel). Yes, the basic support for SATA and PCI Express is there, but we are still on the usual catchup trail to the newer stuff (of course, so are the Linux guys - and gals). I think sinfosar as th PCI Express stuff is concerned that our biggest problem is not with the PCI-X architecture per se, but simply the same old "new hardware" issues. -- Lewis ------------------------------------------------------------ Lewis G Rosenthal, CNA, CLP, CLE Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC Accountants / Network Consultants New York / Northern Virginia www.2rosenthals.com eComStation Consultants www.ecomstation.com Novell Users Int'l www.novell.com/openenterpriseserver Need a managed Wi-Fi hotspot? www.hautspot.com ------------------------------------------------------------