[Arm-netbook] SATA and IDE memory-addressable ICs

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 12:25 AM, Michelle Konzack
<linux4michelle at tamay-dogan.net> wrote:
> Hello Luke,
>
> Am 2010-04-05 23:03:41, hacktest Du folgendes herunter:
>>  http://focus.ti.com/docs/prod/folders/print/xio1100.html
>
> It sound realy good.

 yeah.  next, is to find a PCI-e to SATA converter, then it's possible
to offer SATA.

>>  ah ha!  $USD 7 in 1k volumes.  i like T.I. for these kinds of things:
>> they're known for not screwing people around.  if it's on the web
>> site, and they say it's available, it's damn well available.
>
> I am always wondering, WHY the politic of all the manufacturers  are  so
> different.  There are manufacturers like  Maxim, TI or  Micron  offering
> realy several 100 GBytes of  Datasheets,  Application  Notes,  Reference
> Designs, User Manuals and more which let you  do  you  job  without  any
> hassle and then the others like Marvel, MoSys and such where already the
> website is discouraging to use any products fom them.

 yeah, interesting, isn't it.  the message is "we don't want to make any money".