On Tuesday 14 February 2006 18:06, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > > master and the other slave, it's just two ports. > > If a MB has 2 IDE interfaces, they are usually called Primary and > Secondary. If you are playing with older hardware, one thing to be > aware of is that the secondary interface may not support UDMA. This > is especially true of early UDMA-66 MBs. The primary supported > UDMA-66, but the secondary did not - it was intended for CD-ROM > drives. At that time, it was unusual to find CD-ROM drives that > supported UDMA. If I remember correctly, most didn't support DMA > at all... > The first mobo I saw like that had one UDMA interface and two DMA ones. I didn't own any of the new fast drives at that time, so at the beginining I was using the DMA ones. My primary HDD was labelled hde and the secondary was hdf. The CD-ROM and CD-RW were on the second DMA connector. When asking for help on the lists people were always surprised to hear me talk about Mandrake being on hde, and even more surprised, 6 months later, when the next version was installed on hdf <g> Anne
