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SV35 Series SATA Product Manual, Rev. C
Introduction
The SATA interface connects each disk drive in a point-to-point configuration with the SATA host adapter. There is 
no master/slave relationship with SATA devices like there is with parallel ATA. If two drives are attached on one 
SATA host adapter, the host operating system views the two devices as if they were both “masters” on two 
separate ports. This essentially means both drives behave as if they are Device 0 (master) devices.
The SATA host adapter and drive share the function of emulating parallel ATA device behavior to provide 
backward compatibility with existing host systems and software. The Command and Control Block registers, PIO 
and DMA data transfers, resets, and interrupts are all emulated.
The SATA host adapter contains a set of registers that shadow the contents of the traditional device registers, 
referred to as the Shadow Register Block. All SATA devices behave like Device 0 devices. For additional 
information about how SATA emulates parallel ATA, refer to the “Serial ATA International Organization: Serial ATA 
Revision 3.0.” The specification can be downloaded from www.sata-io.org.
Note
The host adapter may, optionally, emulate a master/slave environment to host software where two devices on 
separate SATA ports are represented to host software as a Device 0 (master) and Device 1 (slave) accessed at 
the same set of host bus addresses. A host adapter that emulates a master/slave environment manages two 
sets of shadow registers. This is not a typical SATA environment.