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Subject: Re: SATA port multiplier support ready yet?
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Dieter wrote:
> If not, how does this "intelligent enough to hide the details" stuff
> work?  Does the controller lie to the OS and say "I have 6 ports"
> rather than "I have 2 ports" and then the device says "I'm a 5:1
> portmultiplier"?

As I know Soren is working on the SATA PortMultiplier support and
he's going to commit it.

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WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov