2 sata drives using 1 cable

Mikkel L. Ellertson mikkel at infinity-ltd.com
Mon Apr 20 01:00:56 UTC 2009


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
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