On Mon, 09 Jan 2006 12:02 , Ray Davison  sent:

>IDE Channel 2 Master
>IDE Channel 3 Master

>Also for a total of six.  Is this the same six, does six IDE equal 
>four IDE plus two SATA?  Just what can be plugged into a SATA connector?

Looking at that, I would assume that the final two are the SATA 
channels, given that there are only master devices on SATA.

As to what you can plug in - there are lots of SATA hard drives 
around, and even a few SATA CDs (though the only ones of this sort
I've seen so far are very expensive).

In my experience, SATA hard drives offer a small performance advantage over
PATA drives. They also frequently have 8 mb or more cache, which also helps
performance

paul

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