* Lee Braiden:
> 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.
Ah, thanks for the clarification. There's too much pseudo-english in
this country. :-)
J.
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