“Linux support is now available for the Ultra ATA/100 bus
specification, Quantum announced today. Linux is the only OS so
far to support the new spec, and three of the five current
controller 1chipsets – Intel, CMD and Promise – with AMD and
HighPoint in the wings.“
“As it did with ATA/33 and ATA/66, Intel withheld announcing the
new bus standard until it had support for the bus standard in its
chipsets. In this case, 815 and 820E, the successor to the
notorious Caminogate chipset, will both support Ultra ATA/100.”
“The faster bus uses the same 80-pin cable introduced with Ultra
ATA/66 (its backward compatible with older 40-pin buses); and
Quantum officially positions the ATA/100 as a “bridge” to Intel’s
Serial ATA bus.”
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