On 11/28/2007 Philippe Landau wrote: > Michael Fischer wrote: > > > Hmm. I can't quite figure out the whole master-slave port thing > here. > > > I can only see what happens in the BIOS reporting as I move the > > > connections around on the motherboard. Putting both HD's into what > > > appeared to be "slave" ports got the BIOS to say "hey, I can't > find > > > a master HD", not surprisingly. Also not surprisingly, SuSE didn't > > > find them either. > Master/Slave was an obsession of the IDE protocol: > There you need to set a jumper on each hard disk > so that every IDE cable only has one master (and one slave), > or CS (cable select) both. Sata does not need this. > > Kind regards Philippe
My configuration is probably a bit different than most. I have three hard drives, each loaded with a different OS. Two are SATA drives and one is an IDE. All three are "master". I don't think SATA has such a thing as a "slave" port, unless its a raid thing. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
