Comment on If "Master/Slave" terminology in computing sounds bad now, why not change it to "Dom/Sub"?
Blaster_M@lemmy.world 4 weeks agoThe activity light on the Master drive will light up in sync with the Slave drive when accessing data on just the Slave drive. At the end of the IDE lifespan, there was a movement to put the names as Primary and Secondary instead. It doesn’t really describe the relation to how the hardware works, though.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
I mean that does actually work better. If there’s only one, it has to be the Primary. If there’s two, one of them has to be the Primary and the other one is the Secondary. That makes more sense to me. Because neither drive is sending the commands here, the IDE controller either built into the motherboard or on an expansion card is sending the commands, that’s the “master.”