[plug] SATA hard drives

[Bernd Felsche]

On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 10:47:51AM +0800, Craig Dyke wrote:
> I am about to embark on building a new PC and was wondering if anyone
> had had any luck using SATA hard drives under linux?
> 
> It would appear that most of my searches have yielded that they work
> but do not perform anywhere near their expected performance levels.

2.6 kernel will have significant improvements in that regard.
Large parts of the disk subsystem (revolving around SCSI and "SCSI")
have been re-done for improved performance with high-bandwidth
devices in mind.

I don't know the details; just regurgitating Linux Magazine. :-)

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