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?
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 9:27 PM, Mike Chambers mike@miketc.net 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?
You can't daisy chain SATA drivers, at least not without additional hardware.
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?
Not possible with SATA to the best of my knowledge
Of course, not sure I see another slot mentioned in the BIOS, so maybe it's a mute point?
What you want is a (fairly cheap) SATA interface card that can be either USB, PCI or PCI-E. I would suggest putting the hard drive directly to the board, and the DVD ROM to the interface card.
You may want to verify Linux compatible with your choice of interface card before purchase.
No it cant sorry, you can only use one sata per device.
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 7:27 PM, Mike Chambers mike@miketc.net 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?
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On Thu, 2009-04-16 at 21:27 -0500, Mike Chambers wrote:
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?
No, it's one per cable.
If you have a spare PCI slot (or another type of card slot), you can add a SATA host card. Though, remember that can cause the computer to renumber the drives (whichever it considers the first drive may change). If you find your computer doesn't boot after adding drives, change where the drives are plugged into, put your first drive where it thinks the first drive socket is.
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.
Regards,
John
john wendel wrote:
You can buy a "sata switch"
what about 'cp' or 'mv' between drives?
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
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?
As others have stated, it is one device/cable. You may want to consider a PATA DVD drive. Unless you have PCI express slots, adding a SATA card will limit your SATA speed. You could move the DVD drive to an add-on card, but you may not be able to boot from it. It depends on the SATA card.
Mikkel
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 10:44 AM, Mikkel L. Ellertson mikkel@infinity-ltd.com 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?
As others have stated, it is one device/cable. You may want to consider a PATA DVD drive. Unless you have PCI express slots, adding a SATA card will limit your SATA speed. You could move the DVD drive to an add-on card, but you may not be able to boot from it. It depends on the SATA card.
Even the cheap ones will allow booting.
Arthur Pemberton wrote:
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 10:44 AM, Mikkel L. Ellertson
As others have stated, it is one device/cable. You may want to consider a PATA DVD drive. Unless you have PCI express slots, adding a SATA card will limit your SATA speed. You could move the DVD drive to an add-on card, but you may not be able to boot from it. It depends on the SATA card.
Even the cheap ones will allow booting.
I could have sworn I ran into one that would let you boot off a hard drive, but would not boot off of an optical drive. But my memory may be going...
Mikkel
On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 8:00 PM, Mikkel L. Ellertson mikkel@infinity-ltd.com wrote:
Arthur Pemberton wrote:
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 10:44 AM, Mikkel L. Ellertson
As others have stated, it is one device/cable. You may want to consider a PATA DVD drive. Unless you have PCI express slots, adding a SATA card will limit your SATA speed. You could move the DVD drive to an add-on card, but you may not be able to boot from it. It depends on the SATA card.
Even the cheap ones will allow booting.
I could have sworn I ran into one that would let you boot off a hard drive, but would not boot off of an optical drive. But my memory may be going...
Oh well, in that case, I could be wrong. I assumed if it let you boot an HDD it would surely let you boot optical drives