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[–] JasonDJ 15 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Back in my day, /dev/hda was the primary master, hdb was the primary slave, hdc was the secondary master and hdd was the secondary slave.

Nothing ever changed between reboots. Primary/secondary depended on which port the ribbon cable connected to on the motherboard, and ~~primary/secondary~~ master/slave was configured by a jumper on the drive itself.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, and ide only supported 4 drives at a time in most systems

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

If you had a Sound Blaster 16, you had an extra IDE port on the board, which DOS couldn't see and you had to load special drivers to use them. Usually it was used for the CD-ROM.