Re: Asus M2V-MX Motherboard AMD Socket AM2

On Apr 27, 8:11 am, Paul <nos...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Desmond wrote:
Am I loosing the plot with SATA. This board comes with 2 SATA
connections. Older motherboards came with 2 IDEs. The IDEs had master
and slave totaling 4 devices. I can only have 2 devices on this
motherboard?

Desmond.

Two on the PATA ribbon cable. Two via the two SATA connectors.
A total of four devices. You paid $49 for a motherboard, and
you got capability for four devices total.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131223

For $90, this one has two PATA (on one ribbon cable) and six SATA.
The extra $40 buys you four more SATA ports.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131273

For $180, this one has two PATA, six SATA (Southbridge), two SATA
(on a separate SIL3132 controller).

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131011

And you can always buy an add-in card with more storage
interfaces, if you want to. For $20, you can get two
extra SATA ports. This card is from Syba and uses a
SIL3132 PCI Express x1 chip to make the two ports.
(This would only work if you have the M2V-MX SE, as it
has a PCI Express x1 slot. You can plug this into the
PCI Express x16 slot, but that would be a terrible waste
of a video card slot.)

http://c1.neweggimages.com/NeweggImage/productimage/15-124-027-06.jpg

If you connect one of these boxes to the SIL3132, it converts one
SIL3132 port into five ports. Using two of these boxes
(the boxes are $100 each), you could control up to ten disks
from the SIL3132 chip.

http://www.sataport.com/

And you can always use a USB2 to SATA or USB2 to IDE adapter,
and connect disks that way (external enclosures or the bare
adapter cable products).

    Paul

Two on the PATA ribbon cable. I don't see this cable and no strange
cable came with the board. I have 2 IDE coneectors suporting 4 IDE and
2 DATA connections. I paid £60 for this ($120)

Desmond.


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