Tuesday, September 27, 2011

SATA: Multiple ports can belong to same channel?

No...SATA allows one drive per channel, unless using a port multiplier

Note to self:
so we can safely assume that different SATA drive on different port will use separate channel, unlike IDE which two drives on same cable will use same channel

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_ATA

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