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. If you added another IDE controller card in a PCI slot, you'd have four IDE channels, for a maximum of eight devices. Of course, special controller cards might provide even more. -- Lee. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
