Re: Harddrive ide cables

On Mar 29, 9:02 am, Blattus Slafaly 0/00 ? ? ?
<boobooililili...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

So I take it if you have the 80 wire cable and do not have harddrives
jumpered for cable select you get a defective condition?

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Blattus Slafaly ? 3 :) 7/8

No, although its as practical, as not, to favor CS jumpers, as do most
nowadays - if all goes well, imo;- for instance, I've some screwy DVD
writers recently purchased, that haven't adapted well at all,
regardless of a variety of cable selection and jumper settings or
controller assignments. ...Intermittent problems, though, and
unrelated.

If you can duplicate the 80-wire cable problem across "backwards
compatibility" for other devices, then you've a controller/MB issue,
possibly a dated one at that. IOW- if it's only a 80-wire cable and
never a 40-wire that is causing problems. If not, it's conceivable
the HD manufacturer's implementation of industry standards exhibits
some variance from equipment, presumably newer, you're working with.
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