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Old 07-13-2003, 07:05 AM   #11
Tobiasly
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Originally posted by vsp
One other quirk, which probably means nothing: the CDRW is openly listed under "Secondary Master" in the BIOS, but there is no Primary Master listed (it's set to "Auto," rather than explicitly to the HDD.)
You're right, it means nothing... gone are the days when you had to explicitly set a hard drive's properties in the BIOS (whether you did it manually, or let it automatically detect once after it was installed). These days it pretty much just auto-detects everything at startup. Makes it easier for consumers to change their hard drive, whether that's a good or bad thing!

The important thing, as Steve mentioned, is that the hard drive is one one channel and the CD-RW on the other. Whether a device is master or slave, when it is the only device on a channel, makes no difference.
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