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20050614 Tuesday June 14, 2005

ATA and SATA drivers ATA and SATA drivers Hi my name is Lida Horn and here are the drivers that I wrote for Sun: an I2O block driver and a PCMCIA ATA driver. (I wrote these back about 5 years ago, I am a Sun re-tread). Right now I am busy working on the next generation of SATA drivers which will take advantage of SATA II features. I must say the performance of the new SATA driver rocks :-), I can not go into details of what chips and what hardware for now. Stay tuned!

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    • ( Jun 14 2005, 08:21:55 AM PDT ) Permalink Comments [4]

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    I see that the Sun Ultra 20 Workstation has SATA drives. Are there Open Solaris drivers (or closed ones) or do they run in legacy ATA mode?

    Posted by Justin Cormack on June 29, 2005 at 02:53 AM PDT #

    Bought a Kodak picture card adapter years ago with my Sony powershot camera. Own two laptops, one config w. Win98SE and one with Win2000Pro. Upto a week ago I could use the SanDisk Compact Flash cards without problem when exchanging small amounts of data, pictures, etc. Now both computers do not recognize the cards as SanDisk, but write SunDisk instead. Can't access the CompactFlash memory card in the adapter anymore.... What can I do??? Could you help? Please! Gret's Michael OZ Beijing, China

    Posted by Michael OZ on January 05, 2006 at 03:46 AM PST #

    The Ultra 20 currently uses legacy (PATA) mode. There is work going on to move support to the new framework. As far as the SanDisk issue goes I would need to see more information to even guess what might have broken. If you provide more details I might be able to route the issue to the right people. I.e. those who maintain the I2O stuff.

    Posted by Lida Horn on August 26, 2006 at 10:15 AM PDT #

    Sorry, I meant PCMCIA (PCCARD) not I2O in my previous comment.

    Posted by Lida Horn on August 26, 2006 at 10:33 AM PDT #

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