[OpenIndiana-discuss] 2 small Qs about Sata controllers

[Jeppe Toustrup]

2011/2/19 Harry Putnam <reader at 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.

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Venlig hilsen / Kind regards
Jeppe Toustrup (aka. Tenzer)