Why sata drive no configuration?

[darsunt]

I was comparing an old and new hard drive, and noticed the sata drive had no master/slave configuration. Is this because ide drives can run off the same ide cable while sata drives do not?

Also, can ide 100 and ide 133 run off the same cables and motherboard?

Where can I get a good 120G ide drive? I can't find any on newegg.

 

[peterhuang913]

Yes, pretty much. It's also that the SATA is a different technology and they probably made it easier for the end-user.

Yes, it can. Just be sure to use the 80-pin and not the 40-pin cable.

IDE what?

Dunno about 120, but here are some:
Newegg.com - Western Digital Caviar SE WD2500JB 250GB 7200 RPM 8MB Cache IDE Ultra ATA100 Hard Drive - OEM
Newegg.com - Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 ST3160815A 160GB 7200 RPM 8MB Cache IDE Ultra ATA100 Hard Drive - OEM

 

[Apokalipse]

master and slave settings only exist because two drives can be used on one IDE cable.

SATA cables are much smaller, so they don't bother having multiple drives on the one cable. They can fit a whole lot more ports on the motherboard.

IDE 133 drives can run on the same cable as IDE 100 drives, but not at different speeds. The speed will be the maximum speed of the slowest drive. In this case, 100.

Or if you are using only a 40 wire cable, they'll both run at 66; since the cable bottlenecks both.