On Sunday 07 August 2005 15:27, Claude Jones wrote: >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 Thanks Claude. FWIW, I don't recall having come across a cable that was marked, either here or at the tv station (about 75 machines there). 3 machines & about 8 drives here at home. So that explains my lack of knowledge. But now I'll make sure I inspect the cables in the future. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.35% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
