ATA (Re: AMD64 support in 5.x versions)

[Marc Bevand]

James Van Artsdalen wrote:
> 
> [...]
> Highpoint sells an RR-1820 PCI-X (64-bit 133 MHz) serial ATA controller
> but I cannot get them to send me any technical documentation and
> cannot get it to work with Windows with the supplied drivers.  Silicon
> Image has a 3124 chip which is PCI-X and ought to be able to directly
> address more than 4 GB of RAM but I don't know of any card that uses
> this yet.

Intel has a PCI-X SATA controller [1] too, but I am not aware of any
product using it.

There is also Marvell which has some PCI-X SATA chips [2]. Here is a
product using them [3].

[1] http://www.intel.com/design/storage/serialata/gd31244.htm
[2] http://www.marvell.com/products/storage/sata/index.jsp
[3] http://www.supermicro.com/PRODUCT/Accessories/DAC-SATA-MV8.htm

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