Slave/Master drive

Sooo yeah, how which drive is supposed to be set to what? and what does it mean exactly for a drive to be set one of the ways?

google, motherfucker, do you use it?

no, but i use booble quite a bit

just do CS (cable select) for both

basic explanation :
- for an ide channel to support 2 drives, one has to be master, one has to be slave.
- the master drive is what the pc talks to, and when the pc wants to talk to the slave drive it must do so through the master drive.
- booting is generally possible only on the master on older bioses, and to boot of slaves you must usually select the drive from a boot menu on newer bioses
- placing 2 drives on an ide channel results in a performance hit as both drives must share the channel's bandwidth.
- cs means the drives themselves negotiate which is slave and master, but you need a special cs ide cable.
- MORAL OF THE STORY: boot drive is master, other drive is slave, but put them on separate interfaces if you can.

>>1
Wow, that's some fucked up English.

>>6 And as everyone knows, 4ch is the epitome of internet sites upholding the english grammar.

HOW DO I SPEAKED ENGLISH

>>5
Cable select doesn't require a "special CS IDE cable" - what it does require is an 80 wire IDE cable, which is also a requirement for transfer modes of ATA-66 and faster, which should be practically everything nowadays. In other words, the standard IDE cable that came with your hard drive and/or motherboard will do cable select already.