Master and slave drives, how do they work now?

[Deleted member 108676]

I know in the past you had jumpers, but it doesn't appear there are such things anymore. I need a new internal hard drive to save stuff on. It'll be going into an existing comptuer. Do I just put it in, plug it up and let windows do its thing?

Also, whats the max size drive windows 8 will see?

I use to know all these things...I've been away from it so long I don't know these things any more.

 

[Biznatch]

That died a LONG time ago, and was when you plugged multiple drives into a UDMA cable. With SATA just plug them in until you have no more ports, they will show as additional drives automatically in windows.

 

[Deleted member 108676]

Sweet, thanks

 

[ZLoth]

You are thinking of PATA or IDE drives which had a Master and a Slave. They are technologically obsolete by several years. Maybe your computer has SATA drives.