UPDATED: SATA 6G launch delayed to do tech issues on nearly all P55 boards

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Marvell has responded to the recently discovered issue with their new SATA

6G controller chip, the 88SE9123, that is forcing motherboard vendors to

pull it from entire lines of product.

 

URL: http://www.pcper.com/comments.php?nid=7470

 

Quote: "What this essentially says is that the problem on the 88SE9123 chip

didn't lie with the SATA 6G implementation but rather with the legacy PATA

support they built into the chip. Going back and looking at the spy shots

we have for most of the P55 motherboards we have seen, they ALL do in fact

have an IDE channel on them - and since the P55 chipset doesn't offer

support for it, we can assume that all of these motherboard vendors were

using the Marvell chipset in that fashion. That would explain why all of

the boards would need to be changed drastically at the last minute."

 

Thanks for a post!

 

Ryan Shrout

PC Perspective

rshrout ( -at -) pcper.com