Seagate Technology , APT Technologies, Inc. and Vitesse Semiconductor Corporation demonstrated the first Serial ATA disk at the Intel Developers Forum today. The demo was run using a Seagate disk drive with its Serial ATA board, APTs Serial ATA Link and Transport layers logic, and Vitesses 1.5 Gbs CMOS transceiver, attached via Serial ATA to APTs Serial ATA to PCI host bus adapter all running on an Intel Pentium4 system. To demonstrate Serial ATAs flexibility a Delta 12x DVDROM drive was running on the same controller.

In a quote from Jim Rubino, president and CEO of APT Technologies, “The development of this prototype is key to illustrating that the industry is on track to deliver Serial ATA. We have also demonstrated widespread O/S compatibility running the setup under Windows* 98, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Red Hat Linux* and Solaris* 8 with both ATA and ATAPI devices. Our ability to demonstrate the viability of Serial ATA technology on both ATA and ATAPI devices is another step toward ensuring a smooth transition from parallel ATA/100 to Serial ATA.