On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 06:28:49PM -0600, Shyamal Prasad wrote: > "Pigeon" == jah pigeon <Pigeon> writes: > > >> According to IDE specs, master is supposed to go on the end of > >> the cable. > > Pigeon> I think that for reasons of termination (such as it is for > Pigeon> IDE), if you only have one drive, it should go on the end > Pigeon> of the cable. If you have two, I don't think it matters > Pigeon> which is where, especially since the difference in status > Pigeon> implied by "master" and "slave" is an artefact of the > Pigeon> terminology with no counterpart in the functioning of the > Pigeon> interface. This is empirical, of course. But on a cable > Pigeon> with two drives, I've never found it to matter which goes > Pigeon> where. > > Unless you set your drives to "cable select" and use an IDE cable that > automatically chooses master and slave for you. Apparently these > exist, though I've never used one (and would avoid it). > > Cheers! > Shyamal
Yeah, I too have heard of these and their reputation for being flaky, though I don't know why this should be so. I think the cables are visibly different, with missing connections, so maybe it's something to do with floating pins on the HDD picking up interference - best I can come up with. Pigeon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
