Tim: >> It does NOT matter whether a cable is a cable-select cable or not, when >> you jumper your drives as master and slave. They behave as master and >> slave, as jumpered, no matter what the cable is. >> >> Why is it that people do not understand this? The jumpers on the drive >> override anything else. You have to specifically set drives into the >> cable-select mode for them to pay any attention to the type of cabling. Mike McCarty: > Well, that depends on the drive. The CS system is designed such that > a drive *can* override based on jumpers, and I've never seen a drive > which used the cable select to override the jumpers, and it wouldn't > make sense do to so to me, but drives' incompatibilities with each > other being what they are, and electronic designs and testing being > what they are... I did mention that all but *broken* drives would obey the jumpers. There's no sane reason for it to work any other way. The jumpers select whether the drive is master/single/slave/cable-select. If the jumpers weren't the controlling factor, you wouldn't have those options, nor be able to make them. A drive would have to be seriously broken to override or ignore jumpers, it'd give you NO way to set what you want. -- Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
