Re: Yup, it's definitely fedora's fault, not my hardware.

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John Summerfield wrote:

On Monday 29 November 2004 08:08, Kevin J. Cummings wrote:

Oddly enough, I've never known that there was such a beast as a "cable-
select cable" or a "non-cable-select cable" even though I've built at
least 200 systems. I've just always jumpered drives as master/slave as
required.

How would one detect which type of cable it is?

One of my UDMA cables has 2 different colored connectors (blue & black?) and can be used with Cable-Select....


I only discovered that quite recently. I think it' part of the spec from ATA-3 which basically means all contemporary kit.

Dunno about those 40-pin cables you still see at Tricky Dick and Tandy and such.

40 CORE (they both use 40 pin btw) cable - doesn't matter which is master slave or even motherboard connector.


80 CORE cable can cause havoc if you do not stick to the order:
BLUE - MOTHERBOARD
BLACK - MASTER
GREY - SLAVE

Any other combination can cause real problems, or minor ones depending on motherboard. I've never seen an incorrectly wired IDE cable run at ATA-5 speed properly.

Regards,
Ed.


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