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Hi Gary et all, Would it be possible to run as PM/PS with 2 port SATA ? I am not sure how it can work, since we may have two base address registers and each one corresponds to one port and our host software always assumes that the Master & Slave will have the same base address. I guess, i am causing more ripples.....:-) Gana.. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gary Laatsch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Pat LaVarre" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2002 2:06 PM Subject: RE: [t13] SATA > This message is from the T13 list server. > > > 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 >
