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The white and green ports are IDE ports, also known as ''channels''. In this example there are both primary and secondary IDE channels which only PATA can be connected to; this means that it only supports PATA/PATAPI drives.
 
Each port can have a PATA cable connected to it (see the image on the right). One master drive, or two drives (master and slave), can be connected to one PATA cable. So that leaves us with the following possibilities:
 
* Primary Master Drive.
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