Re: Does anybody know what jumper setting "cable select" does for a hard drive?

I believe that one of the original reasons for craeting the 'cable-select'
method was to simplify the assembly of mass produced systems ala Dell,
Gateway, etc....

With cable-select, they could just install hard drives as they came down the
line without the need to jumper each drive for 'master' or 'slave' as
needed. The HD's (and optical drives for that matter) would come from the
manufacturer set to 'cable'select' and all the asembler had to do is install
the drive and attach it to the appropriate place on the cable.


"Conor" <conor.turton@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:MPG.1e49b3dedad29b7c98be35@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> In article <2m4tt1h9ec2k3vplvvb94pml7vgj1168an@xxxxxxx>, Jim Johnson
> says...
>> It's supposed to make the devices "select" whether they're master or
>> slave by the connection they use on the "cable". Theoretically, if
>> you have two hard drives or CD/DVD ROM drives on your cable, and both
>> are set to cable select, then the one on the end of the cable should
>> automatically become the master and the one plugged into the middle
>> should become the slave. I've seen it work once.
>
> That's because you also need a CS enabled IDE cable which alot aren't.
>
>
> --
> Conor
>
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