Serial ATA

dstranathandstranathan
Posted:
in Genius Bar edited January 2014
Can I add a second SATA drive to my existing SATA bus on my G5?



How many drives can a single SATA controller control?



Do I have to set a Master/Slave DIP or jumper for SATA? I don't, correct?



If I want to add an ATA/133 drive inside my G5, can I do it without adding a ATA/133 PCI card? I assume that it can connect on the bus that my Superdrive is on (assuming I configure the Master/Slave settings)?

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    lucaluca Posts: 3,833member
    I don't know the answers to any of those questions except the first. Each S-ATA bus can handle exactly one device. I think the G5 has two S-ATA buses so you can connect two internal S-ATA drives before having to add a controller card (on the other hand, where would you put a third drive?)
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