Cable Select vs. Master/slave settings

[Jim Cornette]

Just reporting something that came up in postings earlier regarding 
cable select settings vs. setting the jumpers on the devices, I tried 
cable select on my drives because I wanted to swap the primary CDROM 
with the Secondary DVD burner. The jumpers set to master / slave worked 
fine when the CDROM which is on the secondary of the cable select cable. 
The CDROM was set to master, While the DVD was on the master of the 
cable select cable.
When I changed the DVD to master and set the CDROM to slave. both set to 
the same position on the cable select cable, the devices dd not become 
recognized correctly. (CDROM on secondary, DVD on primary)
Changing the devices to both cable select allowed the DVD to be master 
and the CDROM burner to be slave as desired.

This is sort of a retraction and a note that jumper selection settings 
on a cable select IDE cable can cause trouble, primarily with the 
secondary connector on the cable selectable IDE cable.

Jim

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