On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 08:40:35PM -0700, john wendel wrote: > Mike Chambers wrote: > >I tried googling this question and not having any luck. And not being > >the hardware expect, thought I would ask here. > > > >I have 2 sata slots on my MB, 1 goes to my dvd player, the other to my > >HD. And I do have one IDE slot to use. > > > >Now to the question. What I want to know, is if 1 sata HD can slave off > >another sata HD? Like using IDE drives and using one as master, and one > >as slave, both using same IDE cable, with just more than one connection > >on it? Of course, not sure I see another slot mentioned in the BIOS, so > >maybe it's a mute point? > > > > You can buy a "sata switch", one sata cable from the computer connects > to the switch, which connects to a number of drives (I've seen a 4 disk > switch). But they aren't cheap. Much cheaper to buy a pci sata controller. > It's called Sata Port Multiplier (PMP).. note that your SATA card/adapter and driver needs to support PMP aswell. with SAS disks/terms it would be "SAS Expander". -- Pasi -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
