On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 8:55 AM, Mark Hanchey wrote= : > I know IDE is fairly easy to interface to but what about SATA. > =A0I see a lot of projects with IDE examples but nothing approaching > SATA. As more hard drives move to that interface I would like to be able > to use them for data storage on projects. =A0I looked around for SATA > chipsets and other than the chipsets for things like motherboards , USB > seems to be the only way to approach the interfacing of pics to SATA. > What are others thoughts on using pics or even something like ARM with > SATA ? > I think you need pretty powerful ARMs say ARM9 or ARM11 or Cortex A5/A8/A9 running Linux or things like that in order to get meaningful performance. An example is Western Digital Mybook World Edition. They use Oxford Semi (now part of PLX Technology) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Digital_My_Book http://www.plxtech.com/products/consumer/nas Not so sure about the processor in Mybook World Live. The wiki mentioned about 700Mhz ARM processor. WD provides the GPL source codes for the embedded Linux. http://support.wdc.com/product/download.asp?groupid=3D106&lang=3Den http://support.wdc.com/product/download.asp?groupid=3D107&lang=3Den http://support.wdc.com/product/download.asp?groupid=3D902&sid=3D132&lang=3D= en At home we have a first edition of MyBookWorld with a customized Linux firmware which allows we to install more software on it, including running CUPS to act as a printer server (but no network scanner support). But since we get a WiFi Laser Printer later, I have not used the function for a while. --=20 Xiaofan --=20 http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .