SATA drives....??

[daytona]

Can they piggy backed like IDE? Or are they 1 SATA one M/B connection?

 

[Zatharus]

One connector, one drive. They do not daisy-chain like IDE (or SCSI for that matter).

 

[Gareth]

If you have ran out of Serial ATA ports on your motherboard, you can pick up a cheap PCI to SATA controller which will provide you with 2, 4 or even 8 more SATA ports.

 

[TFT]

For your info there's no master or slave on a SATA drive either, boot disc is set in the BIOS.

 

[Cromewell]

To be fair, the boot disk was always assigned in the BIOS. Master/slave is just so the controller can address the drives individually (they both get the commands but they ignore the commands meant for the other drive).

 

[TrainTrackHack]

If you mean master-slave setups, then no, you can only have 1 sata drive per port. Most motherboards nowadays come with plenty enough ports, mine has 6 (or even 8? can't remember), and I'm currently only using two...

 

[tyttebøvs]

If the sata controller supports it, you can connect a single sata port to a hub and get many more ports.

 

[Zatharus]

If the sata controller supports it, you can connect a single sata port to a hub and get many more ports.

I did not think that was so much a function supported by the SATA controller on the motherboard (or PCI card) but by an additional controller in the hub. Correct?

 

[tyttebøvs]

There isn't an actual sata controller in the port multiplier. It must be supported by the host controller