Re: nForce4 motherboard recommendations

"Bryan J. Smith" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.redhat.amd64
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> ... As far as features, I would like SATA II (the 250 GB WD SATA II
> drive is slightly cheaper than the SATA drive!) ...

SATA-II is now a marketing term, much like USB 2.0.

You have to have an SATA-II "IO" controller (aka SATA-IO) to get 3GHz,
just like you have to have a EHCI USB2.0 controller to get 480Mbps.  The
SATA-II spec has become like USB 2.0, a set of features, not "required"
features (such as speed).


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