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	A MASTER OR A SLAVE DEVICE
Device 1	Primary master (boot
	drive)
Device 2	Primary slave
Device 3	Secondary master
Device 4	Secondary slave
Device 5	Tertiary master
Device 6	Tertiary slave
.	.
.	.
.	.

Note that the primary master, if configured, must be a boot drive (normally a hard disk). Other than this, an IDE device can be configured to any IDE interface port and either as a master or a slave at your own choice. Here master and slave do not imply any operating precedence; they are just the “sub-IDs” of the devices that your computer needs to know about.

Note: 1. Currently, a CD-ROM drive cannot be used as a boot drive. Therefore, you cannot configure the CD-ROM drive as the primary master.

2.If you are using OS/2 Warp and another device has already been configured as the primary slave, we highly recommend that you configure the CD-ROM drive as the master device of one of the rest available IDE ports.

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