From: Ellen K. 

Eeeww!

On Tue, 31 May 2005 10:40:11 -0400, "Frank Haber"
 wrote in message
:

>(There's another issue with very recent laptops of all brands.  Many laptop
>HDs ship with *no* jumpers or other provision to set
>master/slave/cable_select.  On some, the distributor can burn new firmware to
>change this, which does the purchaser of onesies no good at all.  The
>machines' BIOSes vary in flexibility all over the place.  I've seen Dells and
>Toshibas that absolutely must have their HDs set to !!slave, or no bootie.
>(One Dell boots off the slave on the second  channel, by default!))

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