The county of Los Angeles, particularly Joe Sandoval and whomever advised him, deserves to be smacked savagely with IDE hard drives. This purchasing manager for the county is requiring all vendors to not supply equipment that is designated as having a master or slave identification . That means no hard drives, no video system with subsystems. What a bunch of politically correct bunko. LA, you are once again the laughing stock of this country. Heaven help when you get ahold of our network connectors which are, *gasp*, male and female!