On Sunday 24 September 2006 05:11, Claude Jones wrote: > > Now, as to your request. There's not much to it. You can almost always find > a legend on modern drives that tells you where the jumpers should go. If > you hook two drives to the same controller with a three connector cable, > you'll almost always be safe by jumpering one drive as slave, and one drive > as master. There is also cable select - if you have a cable select cable, > which will usually have markings near the connectors saying Master and > Slave silkscreened right on the ribbon cable, then, you can also jumper > BOTH drives as CS or cable select. There are some on this list that will > insist that this is an invitation to disaster, but I've done it many times > without incident. I have discovered problems where others have jumpered one > drive as CS and the other as Master or Slave, and that creates all kinds of > issues, including drives appearing then disappearing, sometimes recognized, > other times not, erratic behavior - just had such a case this week. Also, > most modern IDE drives now require 80 wire cables, which are not the same > as the old standard 40 wire ribbons - the individual wires are much > thinner, and there obviously are more of them. You must make sure you use > these. > I started building boxes about the same time as you did, Claude, and have habitually put a new drive in as master and the old one as slave. I always jumper for master/slave, mainly because I like to feel in control, and have never seen any issues such as those discussed in this thread. However, I do recall that many years ago my supplier suggested that I didn't use CS (so that now it has become a habit) because at that time some motherboards and some cables did not handle CS properly. I wonder if that is what has caused this confusion? I repeat, this was many years ago. I would expect that any issues that were around at that time would have been long-since addressed. Anne
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