On Sunday 24 September 2006 19:03, Claude Jones wrote: > > I can only speak to my own experience - what I've encountered many times is > situations where drives were jumpered inconsistently, one CS and the other > M or S - as I mentioned in another post in this thread, I encountered this > just this past week on a friend's desktop. He'd installed a new DVD writer > and was having all sorts of erratic behavior as described in my earlier > post. That's not too surprising, is it? > The other thing I've encountered is drives jumpered CS but non-CS > cables. > Non-CS cables? Are they the 40-wire ones, or is there another type I haven't come across? > My current practice when building a new machine is to jumper M/S and use a > non-CS cable. It has been posted on this list in past threads on this > subject that jumpering M/S even with a CS cable will over-ride the CS - I > have no direct experience with that. If I get a machine that has a cable > select cable, I jumper both drives CS. > > But, to go back to what Joel was saying, he asserted that all sorts of > problems with data corruption would occur if M/S were used. My experience > hasn't been that Nor has mine. > - I've encountered extremely erratic drive behavior when > encountering mis-configured systems, but the nature of that was drives > being recognized sometimes, and other times, not, in a completely seemingly > random manner - the systems were unusable in that state, and so there were > no issues with data corruption, because the systems were dysfunctional. > > As to some MOBO's and some CS cables not handling CS correctly, I can't say > I've encountered it, but, the possibility of it wouldn't come as a > surprise; in 18 years of building and troubleshooting hundreds of machines, > I've encountered many wild, and poorly implemented, pieces of hardware Sadly, even from manufacturers you normally trust. I had one 'life' of this box that was totally unstable, no matter what I did with it. It took a change of mobo to sort it out. There have been no problems since. I know of another one running Win98 that was equally unstable. Again, a change of mobo was required to sort it. Both were from reputable names (not the same one). Must be Monday morning boards, I guess. > - my > current pet peeve is USB implementation which is ridiculous. I'm dealing at > this moment with a LaCie USB external mini-drive that has suddenly gone > dark, which happens to have all my wife's website and video work on it.... > Fortunately, it's backed up. Good luck Anne
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