IDE disk problem

Tue Apr 12 00:43:37 UTC 2005

On Mon, 2005-04-11 at 16:36 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote:

> Personally, I NEVER TRUST THE "CS" SETTING!  It is totally unreliable.
> Jumper one drive as "MA" (ideally, the one you're using now) and the
> other as "SL" and you should be fine.

I have never personally seen problems with drives set to Cable Select on
a modern machine.  Many high-volume manufacturers (Dell and Compaq are
two I have personal experience with) have been shipping CS configured
machines for 6 years or more.

-- 
Brian Gaynor
www.pmccorp.com
FC3/Linux on DELL Inspiron 5160 3.0Ghz 
canis 17:38:49 up 3:13, 2 users, 
load average: 0.04, 0.06, 0.01 