Originally Posted By: PandaBear
SATA only support one device at a time, so it must be set as master. That's the spec, not the fault of the IDE/SATA converter chip.
That's why you see 2x as many SATA connector on a typical setup as IDE/PATA.
SATA only supports one device. IDE supports two. A properly designed SATA to IDE bridge chip can support operating in slave or master mode, and one of them (the Silicon Image bridge) claims as much in their data sheet.
SATA only support one device at a time, so it must be set as master. That's the spec, not the fault of the IDE/SATA converter chip.
That's why you see 2x as many SATA connector on a typical setup as IDE/PATA.
SATA only supports one device. IDE supports two. A properly designed SATA to IDE bridge chip can support operating in slave or master mode, and one of them (the Silicon Image bridge) claims as much in their data sheet.