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by arielserafini 2189 days ago
"very accurate"? so a "master" hard drive issues commands to a "slave" drive?
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notajoke 2189 days ago
Yes, exactly. Take IDE drives for example. To use two drives with a single cable, one is set to be the master, the other to be the slave. From that point onwards, the slave cannot write to the bus until the master gives permission.
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arielserafini 2189 days ago
I was referring to newer ATA drives. Nevertheless, in your example no orders (or ownership!) are implied.
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