It sounds way less offensive to those who decry the original terminology’s problematic roots but still keeps its meaning intact.

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      That doesn’t make sense depending on the context. New I2C standard switched to controller/target for example. This conveys that one device is controlling the other devices.

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        My suggestion doesn’t make sense in the classic PATA sense either, since there were potentially several “slave” devices, but they weren’t slaves so much as dependent on the “master.”

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        i saw main/clone for storage once