On Friday 10 February 2006 23:57, Edward Dekkers wrote: > > Anne, as a system builder (9 Years) and GID, I'd just like to mention > that our drives have ALWAYS been jumpered 'master' and 'slave'. Any time > we encounter problems it is because we try to use CS, or incorrect hard > drive positions on the cable. > While only building for family and friends, I have been building for around 15 years. Cable Select has been an option for perhaps 12 of them? Certainly a long time. It's probably about 6 years since I first had a mobo supporting 80-wire connections, and in all these years using jumpered settings has never caused me a problem. I'm not crazy enough to assume that it will always be so - little surprises me in this fast-changing world. > I'm not saying that what the other poster was saying wasn't true, but it > is contrary to ANY experience I've ever had. > > iow: I agree with your initial assumption. I do not believe CS to be a > great option. The few times we've gotten it to work, it seemed to take > much longer to decide anything in POST stage. > > Mind you, I certainly should mention that for the last 14 month or so, > this has been a moot point as systems here are built using SATA now. The future is there, but for the moment I'm happy to stay with IDE. I asked on another ML whether anyone knew if mixing SATA and PATA caused any problems. I got no replies, so if I experiment with the mixture it will be on a box that doesn't matter too much. Anne
