Hi! mark,

On Sun, 28 Apr 13, you wrote to me:

 ml> there are only two connectors on a SATA cable... one that connects to
 ml> the board and one that connects to a drive... more SATA drives
 ml> require more SATA cables and ports on the board to connect them to...

Oh, okay.

 ml> it is the port they are connected to that determines what position in
 ml> the chain of drives they take... i have no clue if PATA IDE defaults
 ml> to the first entries or not, though...

The old ATA 'cable select' came to mind, is all.  For the SATA drives, it
still sounds as though the first on the run of cables (effectively the
first channel) is the master, etc.  Mine is probably a clumsy description
though.

Thanks, Mark.

Cheers,
Paul.

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