[Cialug] Masters and Slaves

[Daniel A. Ramaley]

On Sunday November 2 2008 22:18, David Champion wrote:
>If so... the best way to make it work is to jumper the drives to
> Master and Slave, put the Master drive on the middle connector, and
> the Slave drive on the end connector.

Reverse that--master goes on the end of the cable, slave in the middle.
And if one of the drives is a hard disk and the other is an optical 
drive, make the optical drive slave. Some OSes (older versions of 
OpenBSD, for instance) don't work with an optical drive as a master.

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