Cable Select vs. Master/slave settings

[Jim Cornette]

Claude Jones wrote:

>I'd be willing to bet that 
>everyone who's declared that you should ignore these protocols, and always 
>jumper master/slave, or some other variation on this argument, have simply 
>been lucky - they are victims  who just haven't been bit, ............., yet!
>
>  
>
Now that I've been bitten by the CS and traditional cable settings, I'll 
follow this new tradition.

I was surprised that the devices set to master on the CS slave postion 
and the drive set to slave but in the CS master position functioned 
where the device set to master on the master cable plus the device 
jumpered to slave on the CS slave position acted strangely and 
unpredictable.
I guess most people take into account that the 80-pin cable works for 
UDMA but don't take into account that the cable is also wired for 
master/slave using the chip select jumper settings.
Live and learn.
Jim

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