On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 16:56 -0700, Kirk Bocek wrote:
Scott Silva wrote:
With PATA the device ID is based on location. Hdb is the primary slave
(slave on first port). There doesn't have to be a hda.
I thought the point of master/slave in the IDE world was that the master was
acting as
William L. Maltby wrote:
It's not truly any relationship like that. It's just (in the old days) a
device ID selected on the cable by jumpers on the drive. The control
is nothing more than the IDE controller selecting either 0 or 1
device ID for commands and data. The drive with the matching ID
Scott Silva wrote:
With PATA the device ID is based on location. Hdb is the primary slave
(slave on first port). There doesn't have to be a hda.
I thought the point of master/slave in the IDE world was that the master was
acting as the controller for the slave. If that's the case, how can
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