This is off-topic.
Can the experts here point me to a chat list or a web site that discusses disk drives at the IDE or SATA level.
My partner and I need about a half-hour of expert advice.
Ralph Shnelvar
SATA-IO spec site: http://www.sata-io.org/
ATA spec site: http://www.t13.org/
I’d suggest you join these reflection list of above sites and discuss device level issues with experts there.
-Michael Xing