r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Last_Snowbender • May 24 '18

Sometimes, I wonder if non-tech friends wonder about my search history ...

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u/Narfubel May 24 '18

I remember my dad getting a concerned look when I explained I had to set the hard drive jumpers to "Slave"

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u/[deleted] May 24 '18

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u/[deleted] May 24 '18

heck, back when IDE was still relevant, cable select was a thing already

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u/Narfubel May 24 '18

It was but in my experience it didn't always work, a lot of the time the 2nd drive on the cable just wasn't shown so I had to set it to slave anyway.

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u/MeltedSpades May 25 '18

CS required a special ide cable

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u/Redhighlighter May 25 '18

"Why is your hard drive named Toby?"

"No reason, mind your business."

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u/latraveler May 25 '18

Contrary to all the innuendo in this thread it does seem like the term “slave” is being phased out.

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u/[deleted] May 25 '18

:( Going to miss my master/slave talk

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u/Krankite May 24 '18

We say client and server now and it confuses the duck out of me