[Gllug] SATA - new drives and old BIOSes not compatible?

[Christian Smith]

Christopher Mocock uttered:

> - Tethys wrote:
>> the morons that designed SATA didn't think to specify that a disk
>> should drop to the lower speed automatically if the controller can't
>> handle the higher speed.
>
> Yeah that does seem like quite an oversight. My personal gripe is that
> they also didn't specify some kind of clip to hold the connector in. One
> of my company's main problems is shipping kit to customers then finding
> that the cables have come loose. You'd think that when redesigning such
> a ubiquitous interface for the first time in nearly 20 years they'd
> consider these things! <sigh>


SATA connectors are designed to be hot-pluggable, so this is a deliberate 
design decision.


>
> Chris
>

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