On Mon, 16 Dec 2013 22:48:56 -0800
John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Mon, 16 Dec 2013 21:21:38 -0800
> David <[email protected]> dijo:
> 
> >Lastly, what does the BIOS/EFI say is the order of the two drives?
> >If one is the master and the other the slave, that might also be
> >stomping on you, but not knowing anything about the laptop, I can't
> >help you beyond that.
> 
> I don't recall seeing anything about masters and slaves. Both are
> SATA3 drives. Do SATA drives even have master/slave settings? Having
> said that, I am curious how the BIOS decides which is the hard drive
> to boot to. 

Er, no, with SATA drives it's one cable--one drive.  They don't do the
whole "Master/Slave" bit.  That's for PATA and older drives.

--Dale

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