On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 11:03:27 +0930
Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I have never had cable select work for me - I find it is highly
> dependant on the specific IDE cable, drive, and bios combination.  I
> _always_ use master / slave jumpers, and don't even bother with cable
> select.  Even if I have only one drive, cable select has still failed
> for me, resulting in no drives being detected.
> 
> but maybe that's just me...!

Actually I do that too, but as little as possible.  I just put grub on
the master drive and then, if i'm worried about isolating windows and
linux, i can install windows normally on a seperate drive with the
linux drive disabled or unplugged.  
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