Serial ATA (SATA) is a forward-backward compatible family of advanced computer bus interfaces for mass storage devices with hot-swapping capability and transfer speeds up to 600 MiB/s.
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Access SATA drive via AHCI directly in efi shell?
If we want to access(read/write) SATA drive via AHCI in EFI shell, is there any read/write interface used for this purpose ?
That is, does EFI shell application need to implement the AHCI spec to access drive ? (build command, issue command and…
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SATA in Samsung Exynos
Please take a look at the picture below.
You can see that Samsung integrates SATA 3 into the Exynos 5 Dual. So does that mean that smartphones which use Exynos 5 will be able to connect to hard drives or optical drives by using SATA interface ? Do…
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DOS Boot Sees Long File Names with USB, and 8.3 FNs with Modular Bay
I use different Windows drive partitions for the OS (C:) and software
development projects (D:), so I can easily backup projects and data,
separately from OS restores.
I have an external FAT32 SATA disk that is setup for booting to DOS
level, so I…
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I'm trying to write certain bits of a register hi to initiate power mode into sleep
My issue is I read the value of ADI_DEV_CORE_STATUS it remains as 0x2A, even after I write assert a 1 on bit 22 to enable power mode requests, and i print out the value directly after the value doesn't change.
I'm trying send a a request to go to…
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What mcp stands for in board_ahci_mcp_linux?
I'm going through ahci code from given link http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/drivers/ata/ahci.c and seeing mcp term quite ofen but not able to crack it down.
Can anybody let me know what mcp stands for in this code ,is it somehing generic term ?
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Folder is empty while data transfer Sata Hard Drive From Laptop Into USB External Enclosure
I need a little help - I am trying to take the data from hard drive to another laptop using Sata Hard Drive (2.5" Serial ATA Hard Drive Enclosure). However, it is successfully recognized as E drive but the drive says it is empty. My user account has…
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Confusion in disk write operation using DD command
I am developing a low level SATA driver for an FPGA based embedded system. The driver is running fine.
When I read sectors from the disk using dd command, I can see that the SCSI read(10) command (opcode 0x28) is recived by my low level driver,…
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How to know Bios drive no. for 3rd master SATA hard disk?
Uptill now I was using IDE hard disk and was able to access using BIOS calls and even LBA 28 direct hardware aceess usng PIO mode without need of any O.S. call.
Now I have purchased new SATA 500 GB hard disk and it is my only hard disk attached to…
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How to Install Windows XP on old IDE/SATA hard disk (connected in USB) for on old PC?
I have an old PC (Intel Pentium 4/2 GB RAM) with Windows XP crash : blue screen at startup. So I want to reinstall XP: problem, I haven't CD/DVD player in the tower and the bios does not boot USB...
So I got the Hard Drive 3.5 "IDE / SATA and I…
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Need Script To Automatically Restart Mac Until Negotiated SATA Link Speed is SATA II
I've got a couple of late 2009 Mac Minis running Mavericks. I recently replaced their hard drives with SSDs. Everything seems to work fine, however, I don't always get SATA II speeds. The computer often negotiates down to SATA I speeds. If I restart…
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