On Sun August 7 2005 3:19 pm, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Nice idea Claude, but can you tell us how to tell the difference > between the cables so that we can properly identify them? > Sure. The cs cables are always marked. Look near the connectors. Different manufactures will use different terms, but there will nearly always be a clear set of markings (like HD0, HD1), printed on the cable near the connector, or rarely, on the connector itself. I have encountered cables used by OEM's in cheap systems in the past, that were cs, but did not have any indication. That's why I qualified my 'always marked' statement by 'nearly always' one sentence later. In the past several years, I only encountered that once. So: if you're building a system, if the cable has no markings on or near the connectors, jumper your devices master/slave. If you see markings that intuitively denote 'device1/device2', then try the cs jumpering first. And, always double check yourself - maybe it's just me, but, I get wrapped in the details, especially when I start parts-swapping to troubleshoot, and have been burned by bad jumpering more than once. Several times, in the throes of intense concentration, I've left a device jumpered master or slave, and the other jumpered cs - and that will sometimes work, but, it can lead to strange problems down the road that are very hard to diagnose. -- Claude Jones Bluemont, VA, USA
