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Article #72037Re: IDE - CD ROMs
From: Mike Granby
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 1995 09:41
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 1995 09:41
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In article <749882286wnr@dcad.demon.co.uk>
alang@dcad.demon.co.uk "Alan Groom" writes:
> I want to add an IDE CD ROM to a system currently configured with two
> IDE HDDs (One Master one Slave). I seem to recall IDE will only handle
> two drives max. Does the CD ROM pretend to be a slave drive and thus
> clash with the existing slave IDE HDD?
They can generally be either master or slave. The limit of no more
than two IDE devices per interface still applies, whatever you do.
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