On Thursday, October 11, 2001, at 06:35 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> There is NO functional difference between Master and Slave.
>
> Some EIDE/UATA chip sets will not work without a Master being present.
>
> Some, such as the early G3s, will not correctly support a Slave.
>
> Some (although not on Macs) will support a Slave only.

Under OSX on the beige G3's the Master/Slave setting makes a HUGE 
difference. OSX on these machines will only boot from a Master device on 
the IDE chain. I don't know if this still holds true under 10.1 but it 
did up to 10.0.4.
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