Dais chain Sata II?

knucklebones · 12 Sep 2006 at 11:54

Daisy chain Sata II?

I've heard this can be done. I have a system with 4 SATAII's and want to add another, but have no more spare SATA ports on the Mobo. Are there cables for this? Or can I do anything else?

gurusan · 12 Sep 2006 at 11:59

Can't be done AFAIK

rpstewart · 12 Sep 2006 at 12:32

You're limited to one drive per cable and one cable per mobo connector. You're only option really is to add a PCI or PCIe controller card.

knucklebones · 12 Sep 2006 at 14:31

Ok thanks for the advice.
I have the Intel D975X Mobo, that has it's own raid control.
I don't want to add the new drive as raid. Can these cards just be used to add an extra drive?

rpstewart · 12 Sep 2006 at 14:59

Yes, most of the newer RAID controllers will allow single drives to run in a sort of IDE emulation mode. Failing that set it up as a single disk RAID0 array.

knucklebones · 12 Sep 2006 at 16:04

Thanks Again.
Can you recommend a card?