Intel turbo memory (flash)

[dehrmann]

How does Intel turbo memory show up in FreeBSD? It looks like a mini-pcie card, which almost makes me think it will show up as an IDE controller, a la compact flash.

http://www.intel.com/design/flash/nand/turbomemory/index.htm

[morbit]

As far I know, it's not usable under Linux at all (http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Intel®_Turbo_Memory_hard_drive_cache), never heard of anyone trying to use it with FreeBSD.

[dehrmann]

I found possibly another Intel mini pcie flash product (I'm not sure if it's a robson cache, or not). It uses a pcie *interface*, but the pins are ATA pins...which essentially means a stripped-down clocked-up ISA bus is being run over pcie. Scary.

Anyway, the southbridge would need to be aware of this interesting setup; it's not as simple as an ATA controller on a pcie link. Buyer beware: there IS an ATA controller on this chip, just not the kind you think.