-----Original Message----- From: <[log in to unmask]> 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. PCBUILD mailing list is brought to you by: The NOSPIN Group http://nospin.com - http://nospin.org