Cable Select vs. Master/slave settings

[Mike McCarty]

Claude Jones wrote:
> On Tue August 9 2005 11:10 am, Mike McCarty wrote:
> 
>>Claude Jones wrote:
>>
>>>On Mon August 8 2005 5:31 pm, Mike McCarty wrote:
>>>
>>>>............., yet!
>>>>
>>>>You would lose your bet. I advise against cable select, *ALWAYS*.
>>>
>>>The operative here is that 'yet' just above your declaration...
>>
>>Good point! :-)
>>
> 
> 
> Ok - final point, since you did seem to pull back what from seemed to be 
> turning into a mud-sling. My experience has been, also after a very long 
> frustrating diagnostic session on a mission critical pc, that it is possible 
> to jumper m/s the drives, using a cs cable, and it NOT work - In fact, if 
> you'd been present during that session, you'd have lost the bet. 

Erm, no I wouldn't. I'd have looked in, seen the C/S cable and
immediately tossed it, and put in a good non-C/S cable.

:-)

> There are standards, and there are standards, as you rightly point out, and 
> much equipment is produced in complete violation of same - now why that 
> particular instance occurred for me at that time, is lost to history, but it 
> happened, and was formative in my reaching my current methods of operation. 

Reinforeces my belief that C/S cables are for the birds.

> We only purchase name brand cables here because our business depends on them 
> and with over 50 pc's to keep running, it's not a luxury to keep out cheap 
> crap, but a necessity. Poor quality components always cost more in down-time 
> than we save. So, if a PC comes in with issues I suspect may be jumper/cable 

I think everyone who deals with machines on a business basis
agrees with this.

[snip]

(Never could let anyone have the last word :-)

Mike
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