On Thu, 14 Aug 2003 at 21:17:32, Roy wood wrote:
(ref: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>)
>
>In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tony Firshman
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>>>>> .... and SATA (serial IDE) is already here giving the possibility of
>>>>> chaining IDE devices.
>>>At the moment it is one device to each SATA port. I have never seen
>>>multiple devices supported or multi device cables.
>>I have an Asus P4P800 motherboard in use here right now that supports a
>>2 chain RAID SATA.
>>I only have one 160gb SATA drive on it though, but the cabling/power
>>connector is for two drives.
>>It certainly makes for very tidy cabling.
>I think the Raid on this board is RAID 0 which is the striping of data
>between drives. This may be different. As far as I have seen the normal
>(i.e. non RAID) SATA ports are single devices. The cables are small and
>tidy though.
Yes - it is raid 0 only, and I was worng - there are two SATA plugs on
the motherboard.
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