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To: Zeuspaul who wrote (4492)	12/29/1998 8:30:00 PM
From: CatLady	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14778

If he can choose to boot from C or D via Bios settings, does it really matter which drive is set to be slave or which is master? Does the master get priority over slave for I/O? Does the master perform any better than the slave? I'm assuming that when he's running NT most read/writes will be to the NT drive and similarly when running W98 read/writes will be to that drive mostly.

To: Zeuspaul who wrote (4492)	12/29/1998 9:35:00 PM
From: Clarence Dodge	Respond to of 14778

zp If the machine boots NT and the bios is set to boot D then NT is on the "D" drive (bios terminology for primary slave). These are both correct statements. Also Bios drive specs indicated D: or primary slave ( can't remember which) to be 6.4 gb which is the Quantum. The size spec is how I know NT is on the Quantum. Quantum=6.4GB IBM =8.4GB Here a reason for mismatched drives has emerged. Very helpful in BIOS identification. Master and slave are determined by jumper settings not by position along the cable.. This I recently learned from you guys...but failed to compare that knowledge to the diagram info which I guess I took too literally. Facts are coming in in many directions. to boot NT as master you will have to I'll start looking for those jumper settings> Clarence