[Novalug] The Puzzle Continues

Ed T. Toton III bones@necrobones.net
Mon Dec 11 21:35:09 EST 2006


Thus spake Peter Larsen:

> ATA cable select is up to the drives, not the cable. And IDE cable is an 
> IDE cable.

Not precisely,

 	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cable_select

The whole point of "cable select" is that the cable position, not the 
drives themselves, determines which is master and slave. Most modern 
cables support this now, but that has not always been histoically so.


> If you're particular of which drive is first/boot etc. and your bios 
> doesn't allow you to "cheat" setting the jumpers manually is the way 
> forward.

I've found that using the jumpers to set it explicitly is the most 
reliable.



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