Dotan Cohen [re cable select]: > No, I set them to master and slave. I'd love to see this documented > somewhere reliable. Googling found nothing that I would consider > reliable. Documentation! Pah! ;-) I just cracked open a cable-select lead, and measured what's connected to what, to confirm what I've already read. (Not just now, that was ages ago.) Quite a few motherboard manuals will describe how to connect cable-select cables, and use them properly (which end goes where, and how you must jumper the drives). I've never yet seen one with the master in the middle, as someone else eluded to, but it's not impossible. Though it isn't too likely, simply because of the way of making them involves shorting one wire, and opening another, and that's easily done by punching a hole through the ribbon, but would only work if the master was at the end. And from an electronics point of view, it'd be better to use the full length of the cable, not have an end dangling around. You'll find some cable-select cables are labelled, others have colour coded plugs, but it's not a dependable situation. I used one just yesterday that had no labels, and all the plugs were the same colour. -- (Currently running FC4, occasionally trying FC5.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
