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To: RJL who wrote (2757)	4/6/1999 2:15:00 AM
From: mchip	Read Replies (1) of 110645

Great answer Rich! The 3 settings for IDE drives are Primary(PR)(or master), Slave(SL) and Cable Select(CS). Most newer machines have 2 IDE channels each which can support 2 drives. With 1 hard drive and 1 cd the best performance is with the HD as master on IDE #1 and the CD as master on IDE #2. When you add more drives, it gets a little trickier. Logically one would assume that the Primary/Slave settings would be enough, but if the drives are from different makers the second drive on a channel sometimes needs to be set to CS rather than Slave.

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