10-02-2011
In the meantime, PCI Express is the new contender for performance and as a result SATA is slated to become obsolete in 2 years time. There is still the price-point issue through, where procurement decisions are based on the GB/$ criterion.
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pcie_pci
pcie_pci(7D) Devices pcie_pci(7D)
NAME
pcie_pci - PCI Express bridge nexus driver
DESCRIPTION
The pcie_pci nexus driver is used on X64 servers for PCI Express bridge class devices including PCI Express root ports which are imple-
mented as virtual bridges and PCI Express to PCI/PCI-X bridges.
The pcie_pci driver is compliant with the PCI Express Base, Revision 1.0a specification and supports Base line PCI Express error handling
and PCI Express Hot Plug.
FILES
/platform/i86pc/kernel/drv/pcie_pci
32-bit ELF kernel module.
/platform/i86pc/kernel/drv/amd64/pcie_pci
64-bit ELF kernel module.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+------------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+------------------------------+
|Architecture |x64 PCI Express-based systems |
+-----------------------------+------------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWcakr.i |
+-----------------------------+------------------------------+
SEE ALSO
attributes(5), pcie(4), npe(7D)
PCI Express Base Specification v1.0a --2003
Writing Device Drivers
IEEE 1275 PCI Bus Binding -- 1998
http://playground.sun.com/1275/bindings/pci/pci-express.txt
SunOS 5.11 12 Oct 2005 pcie_pci(7D)