[G4] Newcomer to G4 - query on hard disks

James Asherman jimash at optonline.net
Fri Dec 23 09:27:09 PST 2005


On Dec 23, 2005, at 12:17 PM, Ian Piper wrote:

> Regarding the master/slave switch question, could you elaborate?


The simple reason, I believe, is that sometimes you need to do a cold  
boot or emergency start using the optical drive, and I think that
letting it be the master enhances the chances of your starting from  
it cold in an emergency.
Jim


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