Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!snorkelwacker!usc!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!unix.cis.pitt.edu!gvlv2!gvlv1!kleonard From: kleonard@gvlv1.gvl.unisys.com (Ken Leonard) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Subject: Re: IDE/MFM drive and controller coexistence Message-ID: <965@gvlv2.GVL.Unisys.COM> Date: 26 Sep 90 12:37:15 GMT References: <603@secola.Columbia.NCR.COM> <1990Sep24.190445.3643@uni-paderborn.de> Sender: news@gvlv2.GVL.Unisys.COM Reply-To: kleonard@gvlv1.UUCP (Ken Leonard) Organization: Unisys Defense Systems, NISD, Great Valley Laboratory Lines: 8 In article <1990Sep24.190445.3643@uni-paderborn.de> ill@uni-paderborn.de (Markus Illenseer) writes: * [deleted] * master drive. (All IDE drives can be jumpered as master and as slave drive.) ------- What do the terms "master" and "slave" mean for IDE? ------------ regardz, Ken