[HH] eSATA on an ARM board

[Kurt Keville]

The "SATA doubler" is very popular with the BackBlaze designs... see 
http://openstoragepod.org/ ... I wonder what the practical limit on 
those is; I don't need decent write speeds... just storage density...

At 03:51 AM 1/20/2013, Federico Lucifredi wrote:

>On Jan 20, 2013, at 3:07 AM, Tom Metro wrote:
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> > Federico Lucifredi wrote:
> >> I looked into it after you asked, but was not able to find out anything.
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> > I gather you couldn't identify the SATA chip they are using? Did you
> > determine if it is a separate chip or part of the SoC? If the latter,
> > did you look at the data sheet for the SoC?
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>The SATA support comes from the SoC - the iMX534, 535, 536, and 537 
>can be used on this board, but I am guessing it is the -4
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>http://cache.freescale.com/files/32bit/doc/data_sheet/IMX53AEC.pdf?pspll=1
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>How is the "SATA doubler" cable commonly referred to as? I did not 
>know they existed until you mentioned it.
>
>Best -F
> >
> > -Tom
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