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From: Gregory Pavelcak <gpavelcak@philos.umass.edu>
Subject: Master/Slave or Master/Master
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Sorry for the non-BSD post, but just a quick question. 

I have IDE hard drive and CDROM. I assume I can set them up as primary
master/primary slave or primary master/secondary master. Is there any
reason at all to prefer one of these configurations to the other?

Thanks.

Greg