Serial ATA, supposedly you can chain upto 61??? or was it 29?? devices per serial ATA chain...

And, I once thought that too... but now it seems most of the chipsets are doing the work... older chipset may experience those problem... but the PDC and HPT chipsets seem to be doing most of the work...

Now, I can burn-up processor just as much with SCSI as I can with IDE... If you look at those chipsets anyway... they are addressed as SCSI now anyhow. (At least in Windoze... :~O)