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Subject:Re: Speaking of Improper Terminology From:Matt Ion <soundy -at- ROGERS -dot- WAVE -dot- CA> Date:Wed, 17 Sep 1997 23:27:16 -0800
On Wed, 17 Sep 1997 14:15:20 -0700, Jeffrey Pittman wrote:
>So what terminology do you use when you write instructions
>for setting up multiple hard drives? My CMOS settings, and
>any others I have seen, need to be told what the specs are
>for the master (bootable) hard drive and the slave hard drive.
>Or, do you just reject the entire concept and live with only
>one hard drive no matter how full it gets.
Well, you could just go with SCSI... hard to get negative meanings from
ID numbers 0 through 7.
Your friend and mine,
Matt
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