On Oct 5, 2008, at 12:42 PM, Dana Collins wrote:
> On a slightly separate note, I am guessing that it's a good idea to > unplug/disable any drive attached to a PCI controller card, yes? You can unplug/unpower the slave, but not the master. Although master and slave are really "peers" of each other, an IDE/ ATA bus/cable may have zero, one or two drives, but if only one drive then it must be master, and if two drives then either one may be master, but the other must be slave. (It is only by convention, not by technical requirement, that the end drive is master). Pulling the power plug of the slave drive is usually enough as the drive itself presents so small a load on the bus. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
