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.
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