Not being too familiar with Sata Drives (I'm used to IDE)
I'm asking if you can have two Sata drives on one connection (1 master & 1
slave)?

Mickey

On Tue, 8 Jul 2008 16:06:14 +1000, "Mickey Mouse"
<mickey@disneyland.com> wrote:
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>Not being too familiar with Sata Drives (I'm used to IDE)
>I'm asking if you can have two Sata drives on one connection (1 master & 1
>slave)?[/color]

One per connector

Suspected as much. Thanks PD43

Mickey


"PD43" <pauld1943******.com> wrote in message
news:k1267497841gorkv8bkvfaeur68a18onh6@4ax.com...[color=blue]
> On Tue, 8 Jul 2008 16:06:14 +1000, "Mickey Mouse"
> <mickey@disneyland.com> wrote:
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>>Not being too familiar with Sata Drives (I'm used to IDE)
>>I'm asking if you can have two Sata drives on one connection (1 master & 1
>>slave)?[/color]
>
> One per connector[/color]

And there is no such thing as master/slave with sata

"Mickey Mouse" <mickey@disneyland.com> wrote in message
news:OYqbFnN4IHA.776@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...[color=blue]
> Suspected as much. Thanks PD43
>
> Mickey
>
>
> "PD43" <pauld1943******.com> wrote in message
> news:k1267497841gorkv8bkvfaeur68a18onh6@4ax.com...[color=green]
>> On Tue, 8 Jul 2008 16:06:14 +1000, "Mickey Mouse"
>> <mickey@disneyland.com> wrote:
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>>>Not being too familiar with Sata Drives (I'm used to IDE)
>>>I'm asking if you can have two Sata drives on one connection (1 master &
>>>1
>>>slave)?[/color]
>>
>> One per connector[/color]
>[/color]

Nonny wrote:
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>> And there is no such thing as master/slave with sata[/color]
>
> Since there can only be one drive per connector, that would be
> expected.[/color]

SATA has a feature called port multiplication. If supported by the
controller, multiple drives can be connected to the same port.

Nonny wrote:
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> Interesting. Where does one find the cables?[/color]

You buy a port multiplier, and use normal sata cables.

kind of very short answers...
when connecting 2nd sata, the pc might not boot, because it sees the 2nd
disk as the first - so no OS available. Then swap the connector cables. when
there's only one disk it doesn't matter which connector u use.
sometimes the 1st conn. has a different color.
it is true that the 2nd disk has no need to be set as slave when using sata
hd's

"DL" wrote:
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> And there is no such thing as master/slave with sata
>
> "Mickey Mouse" <mickey@disneyland.com> wrote in message
> news:OYqbFnN4IHA.776@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...[color=green]
> > Suspected as much. Thanks PD43
> >
> > Mickey
> >
> >
> > "PD43" <pauld1943******.com> wrote in message
> > news:k1267497841gorkv8bkvfaeur68a18onh6@4ax.com...[color=darkred]
> >> On Tue, 8 Jul 2008 16:06:14 +1000, "Mickey Mouse"
> >> <mickey@disneyland.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>>Not being too familiar with Sata Drives (I'm used to IDE)
> >>>I'm asking if you can have two Sata drives on one connection (1 master &
> >>>1
> >>>slave)?
> >>
> >> One per connector[/color]
> >[/color]
>
>
>[/color]

"DL" wrote:
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> And there is no such thing as master/slave with sata
>
> "Mickey Mouse" <mickey@disneyland.com> wrote in message
> news:OYqbFnN4IHA.776@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...[color=green]
> > Suspected as much. Thanks PD43
> >
> > Mickey
> >
> >
> > "PD43" <pauld1943******.com> wrote in message
> > news:k1267497841gorkv8bkvfaeur68a18onh6@4ax.com...[color=darkred]
> >> On Tue, 8 Jul 2008 16:06:14 +1000, "Mickey Mouse"
> >> <mickey@disneyland.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>>Not being too familiar with Sata Drives (I'm used to IDE)
> >>>I'm asking if you can have two Sata drives on one connection (1 master &
> >>>1
> >>>slave)?
> >>
> >> One per connector[/color]
> >[/color]
>
>
>[/color]