> one of the most failure-prone and frustrating endeavors was trying to get two IDE drives working together on a single cable as a master/slave pair Before the

> one of the most failure-prone and frustrating endeavors was trying to get two IDE drives working together on a single cable as a master/slave pair Before the advent of pendrives and broadband internet this was how me and most of my friends shared files: we got our hard drives and took them with us to the home of one another. Setting up master/slave was easily done with jumpers on the hard drive and NEVER failed.