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S-SATA interface to be like Master/Slave in IDE interface



 
 
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Old May 19th 05, 01:14 PM
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Dear all,

In my company, we are going to have a new DVDRW drive which runs on
S-SATA interface. We're facing a problem in the testing methology. One
of them is to set the drive into aging mode which the drive will
perform some self-tests repeatedly.

In the previous model, it's based on IDE cables which we can set the
drive into aging mode with jumper setting to "MASTER". This can't be
done in the S-SATA interface as it does not have any jumper setting.

Our purpose is to put the S-SATA DVDRW drive into an aging trolley and
the drive itself will change into aging mode automatically. For this
purpose, it's the best if the changes to the S-SATA can be only minor
change (which is less cost) instead of some big hardware changes.

My idea is to put a media with some predefined codes which when the
S-SATA DVDRW drive reads the media, it'll change to aging mode.
However, this will increase the cycle time as media needs to be
inserted and removed during the testings.

Does anyone have any simple & effective method?

Thank you very very much.

Regards,
Leng

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Old May 20th 05, 10:48 PM
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Dear all,

In my company, we are going to have a new DVDRW drive which runs on
S-SATA interface. We're facing a problem in the testing methology. One
of them is to set the drive into aging mode which the drive will
perform some self-tests repeatedly.

In the previous model, it's based on IDE cables which we can set the
drive into aging mode with jumper setting to "MASTER". This can't be
done in the S-SATA interface as it does not have any jumper setting.

Our purpose is to put the S-SATA DVDRW drive into an aging trolley and
the drive itself will change into aging mode automatically. For this
purpose, it's the best if the changes to the S-SATA can be only minor
change (which is less cost) instead of some big hardware changes.

My idea is to put a media with some predefined codes which when the
S-SATA DVDRW drive reads the media, it'll change to aging mode.
However, this will increase the cycle time as media needs to be
inserted and removed during the testings.

Does anyone have any simple & effective method?

Thank you very very much.

Regards,
Leng

If you identified the make and model it would help!
Mike.


 




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