On Monday 13 February 2006 17:39, Mike McCarty wrote: > to be notorious as not running as slave to other brands of drives. > > Also, I don't like running a hard disc as a slave to a slower device, > like a CDROM. In me experience, it can lead to timing problems on > the cable. > It must be almost 20 years since I was first told "The faster, the master: the slower, the slave". Anne