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Date: 2 октября 1999 г. 11:49
Subject: attaching IDE/ATAPI devices


>The typical mother board has two IDE channels with two devices allowed on
>each channel, usually referred to as primary and secondary (or sometimes
>master and slave). The question is: when attaching only one device to a
>channel, is it necessary to attach it to the primary (or master)
>connection? Or is it possible to leave that empty and attach one device
>(such as a CD-ROM drive) to the secondary (slave) connection only?
>
>   Phil Parker
>
>--------------------------------------------
>URL http://www.math.twsu.edu/Faculty/Parker/
>Random quote for this second:
>  Die, v.:
>  To stop sinning suddenly.---Elbert Hubbard
>
You CAN attach any device as a slave.
I have LG40x CD-ROM attached as secondary slave.
BUT! Creative CD-ROM is SUXX. They attached only as master.

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