Primary IDE Channel , Master Device Primary IDE Channel , Slave Device Secondary IDE Channel , Master Device Secondary IDE Channel , Slave Device
master if the ide cable has a single drive connection. if the ide cable has the master and slave connection. then set the drive to master with slave.
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master if the ide cable has a single drive connection. if the ide cable has the master and slave connection. then set the drive to master with slave.
Each IDE slot can handle two drives. One drive will be the master and the other will be the slave depending o the configuration. If the jumpers of one drive is configured to set the drive as MA (Master), the second must be configured to SL (Slave). Both drives may be configured as CS (Cable Select), if so, The positioning on the ribbon cable will determine whic one is the master and which is the slave
The Primary IDE Channel component provides the IDEport driver in the atapi.sys file.The IDE port driver is part of the IDE driver model in Windows 2000
SATA and IDE are operated on different buses, with different controllers. A SATA drive is not considered a "master" or a "slave"; it has a channel all to itself. If the IDE drive is by itself on the controller, it should be set as Master.
there is IDE and EIDE. It is basically not that common these days.
Master drive on the primary IDE channel
Only one master is connected to single IDE cable
The best IDE channel to connect on a hard drive is the Primary IDE channel, Also known as IDE 1 in dell computers
3F0 - 3F7Primary floppy disk drive controller. Primary IDE controller (slave drive) (3F6-3F7h)