A disk drive can run as either a master device or a slave device. The master drive does not control or take precedence over the slave drive; rather the master drive acts as the primary device; the ...

Am pretty adept at putting systems together - have built last three from scratch - never used a slave harddrive tho - I have a 10GIG Maxtor and an 8GIG Quantum "Bigfoot" that were stripped from old P2 ...

There is no need for a master or slave distinction with SATA drives because they each connect to the motherboard with their own SATA cable. Two IDE/PATA drives, on the other hand, could share the same ...