Quick SATA header question

[TUS 373]

If you have a motherboard with just 2 SATA headers - does that mean you can only connect 2 devices to them - OR - can devices be daisychained with them? E.g a HDD on one, and a HDD plus DVD ROM on the other?

N.B - I'm aware that it may be possible to add extra SATA ports - but I just need to know what can be done with those that are already present.

Ta.

[PJ S]

How do you daisy chain SATA drives?
Each drive plugs into the corresponding header on the motherboard - that's it.

[TUS 373]

That is what I wanted to know! IDE devices - you can obviously have 2 devices on 1 channel, but looks like there is no way of doing something similar by daisy chaining SATA drives. Ta for confirming that.

[Jinx]

www.sata-io.org/esata.asp

It's not daisy chaining but you can connect and array drives over eSATA.

[TUS 373]

Thanks Jinx - read the article you posted, very informative and interesting so thank you again for that.