* Lee Braiden: > On Saturday 07 May 2005 09:53, Jochen Schulz wrote: > >> Maybe that was a misnomer on my side. In Germany we always talk about >> "primary" and "secondary" controllers when we mean the two IDE >> connectors on standard mainboards. I think that's also how it's printed >> on the mainboards themselves and in the manuals. > > We call them primary and secondary too, but channels and controllers are > different. A controller is the chip on the *motherboard* that the sockets on > the motherboard connect to. There is one controller in a typical PC -- > usually with two (primary + secondary) IDE channels. Each channel can have a > master and a slave device.
Ah, thanks for the clarification. There's too much pseudo-english in this country. :-) J. -- A passionate argument means more to me than a blockbuster movie. [Agree] [Disagree] <http://www.slowlydownward.com/NODATA/data_enter2.html> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]