William Case kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika tiistai, 5. helmikuuta 2008): > The schematics in the manual that came with my ASUS M2NPV-VM > motherboard show the Southbridge chip as nForce 430MCP. I > assume this has been replaced by or contains a MCP51 IDE chip > or configuration or something, that is identified by my > Hardware browser (hwbrowser). The Southbridge is a multifunction chip that shows up as several different peripherals in hwbrowser or lspci listings. > I further assume that the MCP51 > is the controller for the SCSI bus. No. There's no SCSI bus in the nForce 430/MCP51. > However, if that is true > why is it called MCP51 IDE. Because it's an IDE controller, not SCSI. > When I look on the bottom of an old drive (from a 4-5 year old > machine -- not one of the Maxtors mentioned above, but a > Maxtor nonetheless), there are several chips. One of those > chips, I assume, contains the SCSI programm, protocol, > commands, that interface with the SCSI bus or SCSI bus > controller. Yes, if it's a SCSI disk. No, if it's a SATA or ATA/IDE disk. -- Markku Kolkka markku.kolkka@xxxxxx
