harddrive q

[Benjamin Honsinger]

I've never seen anyone use the cable select feature nor gotten it to work
myself. But you have a 1 in 2 chance of being right... =)

 - Benjamin

> Not entirely true, if one selects "CSELECT" or cable select for jumper
> settings then it is only the cable position that determines the
> master/slave settings.  My guess is that the last connector would be
> master, though I've been using scsi for too long to remember the IDE
> correctly.
> 
> -richard


> > where the drive is on the ribbon cable makes no difference, the jumpers on
> > the drive determine whether it is "master" or "slave"


> 
> On Thu, 1 Jun 2000, Bradley Bell wrote:
> 
> > hda and hdb are on the primary interface, hdc and hdd are on the secondary
> > interface.  So hdc is the one on a ribbon cable all by itself - though you
> > said you have four devices - is hdd your cdrom?
> > where the drive is on the ribbon cable makes no difference, the jumpers on
> > the drive determine whether it is "master" or "slave"
> > hda - primary master
> > hdb - primary slave
> > hdc - secondary master
> > hdd - secondary slave
> > 
> > -brad
> > 
> > On Thu, 1 Jun 2000, Brett G. Monroe wrote:
> > 
> > > Hey, I hope this isn't a stupid question, but I have three ata hard
> > > drives; hda, hdb, and hdc.  I want to pull hdc but I'm not sure which
> > > physical hd it is.  I know with scsi, I can just check the scsi id, but,
> > > well, this ain't scsi.  I assume I have a duel ata bus (as I have 4 devices
> > > on it).  Should I just play follow the ribbon (with hda and hdc plugged
> > > strait into the motherboard with hdb and hdd coming off of hda nd
> > > hdc)?  Thanks.
> > > 
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> > 
> >