> >Unfortunately, no.  The implication you are making here is that my
> secondary
> >drive, which contains my hard earned data, is somehow less important than
> my
>
> No there is a definite master/slave relationship between ATA drives. You
> cannot run a secondary drive without a primary drive.

        Actually you can. I often run devices set to slave on my secondary channel
without any master device, and it works fine. There is nothing in the spec
to prevent this, selection of the slave device is just a single bit in one
of the registers you write to. TTYL

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