Cable Select vs. Master/slave settings
Mike McCarty
mike.mccarty at sbcglobal.net
Mon Aug 8 21:33:52 UTC 2005
Jeff Vian wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-08-07 at 15:19 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
>
>>On Sunday 07 August 2005 13:29, Claude Jones wrote:
>>
>>>On Sun August 7 2005 1:06 pm, Jim Cornette wrote:
>>>
[so much for attribution, snip!]
> The cable select cable is usually marked as such and many have tags
> showing which is master and which is slave.
> Almost every one made today has 3 different color connectors. A
> colored one at the board end (blue or red is common), gray in the middle
> (slave) and black at the other end (master)
>
> A good rule of thumb I use is that if all connectors are the same color
> it is not CS. If there are different colored connectors it is CS.
Hey, nice touch. I hadn't thought to look for that.
> All motherboards I have bought in the last 4 years have had CS cables
> included, and all that I have found at the electronics stores (Comp USA,
> Fry's, Best Buy, Circuit City, and others) are also CS.
Yes, they have them included, and mine immediately hit the trash can.
> You will also find that all new hard drives you purchase new will be set
> as CS by default.
Yes, and they immediately get rejumpered.
Mike
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