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Does anybody know what jumper setting "cable select" does for a hard drive?
Does anybody know what jumper setting "cable select" does for a hard
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Does anybody know what jumper setting "cable select" does for a hard drive?
yep 8 of 10 times it causes problems,
cable select uses the position of the hard drive on the ribbon to identify its master/ slave settings. "Body" wrote in message ... Does anybody know what jumper setting "cable select" does for a hard drive? When to use it? |
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Does anybody know what jumper setting "cable select" does for a hard drive?
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. Out of many, many configurations and reconfigurations. I'd say you'd be best off just ignoring it and setting one device to master & the other to slave & moving on. On Mon, 30 Jan 2006 11:35:12 -0500, Body wrote: Does anybody know what jumper setting "cable select" does for a hard drive? When to use it? |
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Does anybody know what jumper setting "cable select" does for a hard drive?
Jim Johnson wrote: Does anybody know what jumper setting "cable select" does for a hard drive? When to use it? don't know if this helps, but I am sure of this rule the primary harddrive goes to the ide on the furthest edge of the mother board the inside ide is for extra drives. even if you put an hard drive on the outter rim of the mobo you still need to set the pin jumpers on a butt end of the hard drive this is unavoidable. see hd mfg for correct jumper setting make the drive slave or master some assholes brought up the idea that it was nasty to use the word term when referring to a hd as either slave or master |
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Does anybody know what jumper setting "cable select" does fora hard drive?
Body wrote:
Does anybody know what jumper setting "cable select" does for a hard drive? When to use it? Yes, it forces you to have to put the master on the end (black) and the slave in the middle (gray) of an IDE conductor which has an open on wire 28. It's suppose to make it easier but I would never use it and choose to manually jumper for three reasons. One, I like the flexibility of reversing the master/slave assignment without having to move the drives or twist the cable into a pretzel. Two, some make of drives (Western Digital require manual jumpering anyway. Three, some 40 wire cables (real old pcs) may not have the 28 wire cut. When to use it. For me, never. |
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Does anybody know what jumper setting "cable select" does fora hard drive?
Body wrote:
Does anybody know what jumper setting "cable select" does for a hard drive? When to use it? http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/if/ide/confCS-c.html |
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Does anybody know what jumper setting "cable select" does for a hard drive?
In article , 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 Windows & Outlook/OE in particular, shipped with settings making them as open to entry as a starlet in a porno. Steve B |
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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" wrote in message t... In article , 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 Windows & Outlook/OE in particular, shipped with settings making them as open to entry as a starlet in a porno. Steve B |
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Does anybody know what jumper setting "cable select" does for a hard drive?
Dell still uses CS on their machines.
On Tue, 31 Jan 2006 16:38:04 -0500, "hdrdtd" wrote: 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" wrote in message et... In article , 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 Windows & Outlook/OE in particular, shipped with settings making them as open to entry as a starlet in a porno. Steve B |
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Does anybody know what jumper setting "cable select" does fora hard drive?
Conor wrote:
In article , 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. Just clip wire 28 between the master and slave connector. This can be done with a small hole punch. |
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