Re: support for SATA port multipliers

[David Brownlee <abs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On 2 February 2012 17:14, Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost> 
wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 02, 2012 at 04:18:10PM +0000, David Brownlee wrote:
>> What sort of hardware are we looking at here for the port multiplier?
>> Something like http://www.cooldrives.com/siseata5pomu.html ?
>
> I'm not sure this is a simple port multiplier (in the SATA specs sense);
> it looks like a RAID controller so I suspect it appears as a single SATA
> drive on the host side.

It quotes itself as "SATA Port Multiplier spec. compliant", and the SI
chip page seems
to indicate so: http://www.siliconimage.com/products/product.aspx?pid=74

I suspect it has multiple modes?