Re: disk cloning with dd

[Lee Braiden <jel@tundra.ath.cx>]

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.