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drives the master, or both the slave will likely result in a
very confused system.
Note
: It makes no difference which connector on the ATA/
IDE cable is used in a standard ATA/IDE setup, because it is
the jumpers that control master and slave, not the cable. As
long as one device is jumpered as master and the other as
slave, any two ATA/IDE or ATAPI devices should work
together on a single channel.