Jim Cornette wrote:
Mike McCarty wrote:
Bill Bernauer wrote:
Jeff Vian wrote:
1) Check the drives jumper settings and if these drives are on a
cable-select cable I suggest they both be jumpered for cable-select.
Both drives are set for CS.
[snip]
Opinion mode ON
CS is EVIL. Do not use CS. I have never seen a machine use CS
run any better than one with separate Master/Slave settings.
I have seen machines with CS set get confused about which
drive is which.
Opinion mode OFF
YMMV
Mike
Flip-flop mode:
Setting the jumpers to master / slave on even a cable where pin 28 is
used for signaling the Master / slave should always work. The fact that
you have a cable setup for CS should not matter. Setting the jumpers
seems to be best practice for predictability.
This has been my experience, also. But see another thread where
one fellow (who really seems to know his stuff) claims that
using a CS cable with Master/Slave jumpered drives does not
always work. I had one instance where that was the case.
But I routinely junk those new cables. More because they
seem to be more susceptible to noise than anything. They are
usually the "round" cables (really just ribbon cable in a
sheath).
*However* defective hardware which wants to be master, even when
jumpered as slave, but function correctly is set to CS (cable select)
are legitimate reasons for choosing CS over jumper settings.
Either way would work *sometimes* - :-)
Presumably you consider it desirable to continue to use defective
hardware. I do not. Except for "junk" computers for testing
stuff real quickly. I've got a few that run without even a case.
Not something I would recommend.
Jim
An interesting link described below shows some good information.
http://www.unixwiz.net/techtips/ide-cable-select.html
Oh my goodness! CONVERT a GOOD cable into a BAD one!
Back to the bad old days of floppy drives with twisted
cables.
Mike
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