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primary to slave
Name: lasttime Date: October 10, 2005 at 01:37:40 Pacific OS: xp home sp2 on cable CPU/Ram: intel 2.4/256 ram
Comment:
If i want to swap my CD, which is on the master to my DVD, which is on the slave. Where do i do it! in the bios or elsewhere
Name: Justme Date: October 10, 2005 at 02:19:40 Pacific
Reply:
First by changing the jumpers on the drives, then the cable positions to each drive.
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Response Number 2
Name: Richard59 Date: October 10, 2005 at 03:25:47 Pacific
Reply:
Are both drives on the same ide cable? If so then simply change the jumpers. If you are talking about your primary and secondary IDE controllers rather than master/slave settings then that is a different matter. You have two IDE controllers. One Primary and the other Secondary. Each controller is capable of running two IDE devices such as harddrives and optic drives. One will be Master and the other will be Slave depending on how the jumpers on the drives are set.
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Response Number 3
Name: lasttime Date: October 10, 2005 at 04:40:13 Pacific
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i had a DVD installed and i noticed that its on the slave and the CD is on the master, They are both on the secondry IDE chanel. I thought that the DVD being the more important, that i should have that on the master? what do you think?
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Response Number 4
Name: Jennifer SUMN Date: October 10, 2005 at 05:34:01 Pacific
Reply:
Why do you want to change it? "More important"????... If both drives are working okay, I'd leave it the way it is.
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Response Number 5
Name: ham30 Date: October 10, 2005 at 11:58:01 Pacific
Reply:
There is no functional difference between a Master and a Slave drive.
The use of 'Master' and 'Slave' was a poor choice. They should have used 'A' and 'B' or '1' and '2' so people wouldn't get the wrong impression.
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