Yup, it's definitely fedora's fault, not my hardware.

Jeff Vian jvian10 at charter.net
Mon Nov 29 07:20:51 UTC 2004


On Sun, 2004-11-28 at 19:08 -0500, Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
> Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote:
> > On Tue, 2004-11-23 at 07:42 -0600, Jeff Vian wrote:
> > 
> >>I have often seen flaky drive performance when a drive jumpered as
> >>either master or slave is used on a cable select cable.
> >>
> > 
> > 
> > Oddly enough, I've never known that there was such a beast as a "cable-
> > select cable" or a "non-cable-select cable" even though I've built at
> > least 200 systems. I've just always jumpered drives as master/slave as
> > required.
> > 
> > How would one detect which type of cable it is?
> 
> One of my UDMA cables has 2 different colored connectors (blue & black?) 
> and can be used with Cable-Select....
> 

Most cable select cables have 3 different colored connectors.
blue - board, black - master, and gray - slave.  if the connectors are
all the same color it likely is not cable select.

> -- 
> Kevin J. Cummings
> kjchome at rcn.com
> cummings at kjchome.homeip.net
> cummings at kjc386.framingham.ma.us
> 




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