[geeks] Amiga 2000 acelerator card?

Lionel Peterson lionel4287 at verizon.net
Mon Apr 30 17:52:53 CDT 2007


>From: der Mouse <mouse at Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
>Date: 2007/04/30 Mon AM 09:21:02 CDT
>To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: Re: [geeks] Amiga 2000 acelerator card?

>> And, yes, SATA carries with it many of those benefits plus [...].
>> You can't connect tons of devices to the bus,
>
>> Since a SATA drive will never need to deal with an old crap IDE
>> device on the same port, and since the bus itself is [...]
>
>SATA is a bus?  I thought it was a point-to-point technology, like
>twisted-pair networking.

It's a short bus ;^)

Seriously, there are eSATA port multipliers that allow you to add 8 drives to 
an appropriate single eSATA connector (the controller needs to support port 
multipliers)...

Lionel



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