# My hard drives are politically incorrect **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 26, 2003, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-hard-drives-are-politically-incorrect/215371 "2003-11-26T13:49:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Fredge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/258eb7/32.png) [@Fredge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fredge)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2003, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-hard-drives-are-politically-incorrect/215371/1 "2003-11-26T13:49:15Z")
If you’ve ever added a second hard drive or two CD-Roms (or other IDE devices) to you computer system, you’ve likely ran across the term ‘Master/Slave’ to describe the terms applied to the first and second devices in your system. Basically you need to designate the first/main drive as the master and the second drive as the ‘slave’. This must be done so the drives and the computer will play nice together. It appears that if you’re doing this in L.A. County you’re [politically incorrect](http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/outrage/master.asp). ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2003, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-hard-drives-are-politically-incorrect/215371/2 "2003-11-26T14:26:23Z")
Perhaps they should call one of them ‘Designated non-hierarchical administrator’ and the other one ‘Designated non-hierarchical facilitator’ ---
**Author:** ![NutWrench](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nutwrench/32/20193_2.png) [@NutWrench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NutWrench)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2003, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-hard-drives-are-politically-incorrect/215371/3 "2003-11-26T14:47:34Z")
Dominant/Submissive? ---
**Author:** ![Nightsong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nightsong/32/3083_2.png) [@Nightsong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nightsong)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2003, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-hard-drives-are-politically-incorrect/215371/4 "2003-11-26T15:13:16Z")
Top/Bottom? * * * \<\< A computer’s attention span is as long as its power cord. \>\> ---
**Author:** ![Horseflesh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horseflesh/32/7502_2.png) [@Horseflesh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horseflesh)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2003, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-hard-drives-are-politically-incorrect/215371/5 "2003-11-26T15:43:37Z")
All the more reason to leave them on Cable Select. Or would some people think that that term had something to do with your choice of rope when being tied up? ---
**Author:** ![Scarf-Ace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Scarf-Ace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarf-Ace)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2003, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-hard-drives-are-politically-incorrect/215371/6 "2003-11-26T16:40:19Z")
Its not before time this racism was removed. Hopefully we’ll see more authorities banning racist references like this. ---
**Author:** ![BuddyToBud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9bd4f/32.png) [@BuddyToBud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BuddyToBud)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2003, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-hard-drives-are-politically-incorrect/215371/7 "2003-11-26T18:00:33Z")
What? you mean my PC is not PC? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2003, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-hard-drives-are-politically-incorrect/215371/8 "2003-11-26T18:18:03Z")
I just hope nobody notices the designation of connectors as male and female… ---
**Author:** ![Dragwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dragwyr/32/2855_2.png) [@Dragwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragwyr)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2003, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-hard-drives-are-politically-incorrect/215371/9 "2003-11-26T19:54:50Z")
LOL BuddyToBud. It seems to me that the computer industry could get away with using the terms, “Primary” and “Secondary”. Just a thought.