Hi, I have a design where I have to route SATA signals from a main board to a daughter board. The daughter board will likely have nothing except for the 7 SATA signals(4 data and 3 GND) connected to a regular SATA HDD connector (unless some passives are needed?). In my previous PATA design, I used a normal 44pin IDE type connector pair(pin header + socket), and this worked well for PATA. I'm guessing this will not work so well with SATA though. What kind of connectors would work for SATA1/2? I know the differential impedance is 100ohms, and that the trace length difference must be within 5 mils. I'm guessing I have to get a high speed connector that has the same impedance and is able to support 3GHz speeds? Is that all I need to be looking for? Thanks. -- - Goi Sihan goister@xxxxxxxxx ------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from si-list: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field or to administer your membership from a web page, go to: //www.freelists.org/webpage/si-list For help: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'help' in the Subject field List technical documents are available at: http://www.si-list.net List archives are viewable at: //www.freelists.org/archives/si-list or at our remote archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/si-list/messages Old (prior to June 6, 2001) list archives are viewable at: http://www.qsl.net/wb6tpu