Hello JIM,
Tuesday, August 29, 2006, 6:32:55 PM, you wrote:
J> My Latest Sony uses MASTER/SLAVE. It is about a year old.
Most PC's will accept either CS or Master / Slave - just can't mix
this on the same IDE channel <lol>;
J> My Gateway, not more than a month has SATA, I don't know much about
J> SATA, whether it is cable select or not.
There is no Master / Slave to SATA drives and I understand they can be
daisy-chained on the same port ( similar to SCSI could ) but haven't
seen this anywhere yet in a commercial PC.
J> I opened it to see whether there was an IDE port, I guess it only
J>; has those for the Opticals.
Until optical's go SATA too 
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