1. You have a moth- 4
erboard with 4
built-in SATA con- Explanation
nectors. What is
You can connect one SATA device per port. If you have 4 port, you can connect 4
the maximum
devices.
number of SATA
devices you can
connect to the
motherboard us-
ing the integrat-
ed ports?
2. A manager wants Install a Serial ATA host adapter in an expansion slot.
you to install a Se-
rial ATA hard drive Explanation
into his comput-
To add a feature to a computer, add an expansion card in a free bus slot. In this case,
er, but the moth-
you could add a Serial ATA host adapter in a free PCI slot.
erboard does not
have a Serial ATA
connector. What
should you do?
3. Which of the Plug the 15-pin power connector into the SATA drive.
following tasks
would you com- Explanation
plete as part of a
SATA devices use a special 15-pin power connector that supplies 3.3, 5, and 12
SATA installation?
volts. Using the 4-pin Molex connector for a SATA device requires an adapter cable.
The master setting only applies to IDE drives, and is used to determine the active
controller with multiple devices on the same cable channel. Device IDs are used
with SCSI devices, not SATA devices. Low-level formatting is done at the factory by
the drive manufacturer.
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