Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
I wonder how may of the people that have "staunch positions" stick to one brand of drive? It may be that one brand works better with
I certainly don't. I have WD, Seagate, Maxtor that I can think of right off the top of my head.
Cable Select, and another brand works better with Master/Slave...
Connor used to be notorious for not working as slave with other brands of drives. But that was long ago.
When mixing brands, or mixing types of drives, I have not run into any firm rules. (I know, it is better not to mix brands/drive types, but sometimes you do not have a choice.) Things can get interesting when you only have 2 IDE channels, and you have a DVD, CD, hard drive, and an IDE floppy or tape drive in the same machine.
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