On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 17:03 +1100, Wolfgang Gill wrote: > On Thu, 23 Feb 2006 13:39:13 +1030, Tim wrote > > On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 11:12 +1100, Wolfgang Gill wrote: > > > Nope it doesn't matter. Drive selects are done with jumpers on the > > > drive. All IDE 40/80 pin cables are straight through, so the drive > > > itself govens whether it's master or slave. When I only have one > > > drive, I use the middle connector, and hide the other one out of the > > > way, to give me better casing air flow. > > > > That is just so much misleading, not to mention outright wrong, > > information. Kindly stop leading people down the garden path. > > Misleading?? That wasn't misleading at all!! And I'M NOT leading people up the > garden path. I've build literally 10,000 of machines (Probably more, lost > count after the first 1000 or so). And only 1% have failed due to hardware > faults, and cabling wasn't one of them. It's NO use to explain things into > GREAT detail to people that have little understanding of the concepts as it > is, and confuse them even more. And as I understand it, the original poster > has solved it, so it not necessary to slag everyone that tries to help. I'd have to agree that you were misleading. I used to leave the disk on the middle connector and then stuff the last connector somewhere out of sight. That works really bad. I detected how bad it was when a linux machine continuously complained about ECC errors on the cable. After connecting the disk to the last connector it was just fine (After recommendation from linux-ide ppls). This also seemed to improve disk throughput on some machines, since they seemingly had to cut down to udma-33 speeds OR retransmit silently in order to maintain signal integrity. This does not happen in all cases but doing it right hasn't failed yet. -HK
