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Yes a SATA controller is 1 drive per port and 2 ports for controller (2 drives). I think configurable as either pm/ps, pm,sm, or sm/ss. Usig the first or last would allow you to still run one of the PATA controllers. Using the middle config would take up both legacy channels. gkl -----Original Message----- From: Pat LaVarre [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2002 1:50 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [t13] SATA This message is from the T13 list server. > I think the original question was > "Does SATA support only a master and slave on each bus?" Does it even support that much? I had heard SATA supported one device per port: thus a master only, no slave. A min cost host might support the connection of a boot hard drive, a CD drive, and nothing else ... unless the Else included a more or less vendor-specific hub of its own to give the appearance of a daisy chain, like parallel printer port devices often do. Is that baseless slander? Curiously yours, Pat LaVarre
