IDE or AHCI

[Former member 209475]

Are Dish network receivers using straight IDE or AHCI interface settings? thx

 

[Jim5506]

SATA on ACHI

 

[Former member 209475]

Thank you for that,

 

[tpribors]

I'm a former Seagate HDD guy that occasionally worked on Dish. The drives are SATA drives. AHCI (Advanced Host Controller Interface) is an Intel controller technology that uses command and status rings (a technology first used in DEC Unibus storage controllers.) The host controllers on older Intel platforms permitted the legacy IDE "task file" interface to be used. IDE vs AHCI doesn't matter to the drive except that AHCI permitted command queuing. Proprietery interfaces use other controller interfaces. I never knew what method Dish used.