sjekkul schrijft: "De ATA 100 schijven kunnen komen!"
Via heeft een press release op het web gegooid over een nieuwe southbridge die ATA-100 support gaat leveren, hieronder de hoogtepunten :
Taipei, Taiwan, June 27, 2000 -- VIA Technologies, Inc. today announces support for the high-speed ATA-100 hard disk drive interface in its upcoming South Bridge chipsets, increasing the current burst data transfer rate of hard drives up to 100 megabytes (MB) per second. ATA-100 is a third generation hard drive interface technology patented by Quantum Corporation, a leading storage supplier of hard disk drives, that is designed for rapid, high throughput data transfer between computers and hard drives, and improved data integrity. VIA, Intel and top tier personal computer and hard disk drive manufacturers support the new open standard, with ATA-100 products and systems expected to start shipping in the fall of 2000 after free licensing.
[...] With disk transfer rates soon to exceed 66Mb per second, enlarging the ATA interface to 100Mb per second is necessary to avoid data bottlenecks. The ATA-100 standard removes such bottlenecks associated with data transfers, especially sequential operations and manipulations of today's massively complicated files, allowing PCs to send and receive data more rapidly between their system and hard drive. Ultimately this means that the time necessary for booting up and opening applications is reduced for end users. The ATA-100 interface also enhances data integrity during transfer through improved timing margins and the use of Cyclical Redundancy Check (CRC). VIA's ATA-100 support is backward compatible with existing ATA-33 and ATA-66 standards.