2013/9/27 Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>

>> But to use something like the quattro docking station, either you have
>> to use a USB connection (rather undesirable, especially since all those
>> ARM thingies seem to be limited to USB-2.0 so far), or you have to use
>> a SATA connection where the controller supports "port multiplier".
> Both types support sata multiplier.

I lost you: both types of what? Both the i.MX6 and the A10/A20 SoCs?

You lost me twice. There Are two CuBox modules now:

1st CuBox/CuBox Pro. Which Has the Marvell Armada. http://www.solid-run.com/mw/index.php?title=CuBox_hardware_specification

2nd CuBox-I. Which comes in the four flavors of i-MX. http://imx.solid-run.com/wiki/index.php?title=CuBox-i_Hardware

Unfortunately they don't have a Allwinner A10/A20 version. There HW design is quite good and sw hacker frendly. Eg. built-in USB->UART chip.

> Just read that the original CuBox does it better. The Marvell armada one.
> That is.
> It seems that the Inc doesn't support asynchronous transfer.

Are you saying that the Armada chip only supports the "command based
switching" (so only one drive can be active at a time), whereas the
i.MX6 (used in CuBox) supports "FIS–based switching" (commands can be
sent to drives regardless if other drives still haven't finished
processing previous commands)?

Just the opposite:

1st: Marvell Armada -> FIS Based switching

2nd: i-MX -> Command based switching
http://www.solid-run.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?p=8001&sid=c661b1aaed86bc1a51006d13312ea732#p8001

(posted by Rabeeh; The company's founder/CTO)

Stefan

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