On 6/18/06, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 18/06/06, Tim <ignored_mailbox@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, 2006-06-17 at 20:01 +0200, nigel henry wrote: > > If you have 2 drives, jumpered as master and slaves, the master drive > > is connected to the middle connector on the ribbon cable, and the > > slave drive uses the connector at the end of the ribbon. > > *IF* you are using cable-select cables, where the position of the drive > selects which is master and slave (and you have the drive jumpered to > work in cable-select mode), the end connector is the master. > > If you have manually set your drives as master and slave, then it does > not matter where you have it connected. Anybody who thinks otherwise is > falling victim to the placebo effect. > 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. Dotan Cohen http://technology-sleuth.com
The authorative source: hard drive manufacturer Go the respective site and download the installation manual for each drive.
