2011/2/19 Harry Putnam <rea...@newsguy.com>: > I'm a bit confused... does the `x' in each case stand for a > controller? > > So Pata controllers support 2 drives, > but SATA controllers only support 1? >
No, it's the number of connectors of the kind in question it mentions. You may connect to devices to a PATA port, a master and a slave, while you may only connect one SATA device to each SATA port. -- Venlig hilsen / Kind regards Jeppe Toustrup (aka. Tenzer) _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
