2 sata drives using 1 cable

[john wendel]

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